Buy some food to munch on before the game starts.

The food section of the stadium is a series of food stalls selling all sorts of food, drinks and sweets.

Pippa would consider herself lucky for having close friends who are Professional Quidditch players. She’s given free ticket to watch the finals between Bats and Kenmare, courtesy of her close friends slash former Hogwarts students turned Bats Pro-Quidditch players. She smiled while gazing at the ticket in her hand as she made her way to the stadium. She's also wearing Bats shirt which she bought days before the finals just to show her support to her friends. The Bats home court was such a huge place and it’s awesome! It’s the first time she’s going to watch a pro-quidditch game in person hence her excitement over this! Pippa is not a stranger when it comes to this sport, she’s been a Gryffindor quidditch player for few years now and always up to date with the quidditch world news. She only watched the game in the news and newspapers until the semi finals which lead to this final game between two famous teams. Both the teams are good, and she knows this is going to be an interesting final match! With that in mind, she sauntered toward the stadium. She’s not the one who’s going to play but she’s a nervous wreck right now for her friends! Hopefully, she will get the chance to talk to Alec and Tori after the game, it’s been a while hasn’t it? Seeing the food stands, Pippa went there first before heading to the stands. She checked the available food while waiting in the queue. “Hi!” The lady at the counter smiled at her and asked for her order, “I’ll have cheese burger & chips and then orange juice please.” The lady nodded and prepared her order quickly.

G and Dax were lucky enough to snag tickets for the League Championship. She's obviously cheering for the Kenmare Kestrels because have you seen Carina play? She's her favorite player and she's wearing the Kestrels colors with a face paint that says "KK" on her right cheek. Her hair is tied on a loose ponytail and she can't wait for the game to start! She's pretty sure her team would win cause the Bats sucks but hey, she wouldn't dare say that out loud in the fear of starting a riot or something. Merlin knows these fans are something else. Dax, on the other hand, is much more mellow because he has no preference. She thinks he came here to just enjoy the show and to accompany her since she asked him. Still, she's nevertheless glad he came with her. They just recently came back from their vacation and she gotta admit, she had some withdrawals the first few days she didn't see him. Anyway, she told him she'd buy some food and be right back. G didn't realize that the person in front of her was a friend until she heard her voice. G took a step to the side to see her better and grinned when she saw it's somene she knew. "Pippa!!" She greeted. "Hey, I didn't realize it was you." G laughed. "Wait, gimme a sec." She focused on the lady since Pippa finished her order. "Can I have a double cheeseburger, fries and soda. Another order of a footlong with chips and cranberry juice, please. Thank you!" 

Pippa stepped aside to give way to the next customer, but she was surprised upon hearing a familiar voice behind her. She turned around and her eyes quickly narrowed once seeing G there. “Oh my gosh, G!!!!” But the lady at the counter asked her friend for her order so Pippa waited while listening in amusement noting just how much she ordered. “Let me guess, Dax is with you, right? Or else you will not be ordering that much.” She giggled and finally stepped forward to give her friend a tight hug (gm!). “Oh god, you don’t know how I've missed you and Tori and Alec, it’s not going to be the same in Hogwarts next year!” Last year was tolerable because G was still there, but since she graduated too, Pippa was the last remaining one from her group of older students. They were her first true friends she gained in school, but of course she still have her 3 best friends now. Speaking of Tori and Alec, Pippa showed her ticket to G, “Tori and Alec gave me this! For free! I can’t wait to see them play G!” She finally realized G is supporting KK, which isn't hard to miss from the symbol on her cheeks. Pippa laughed, “Looks like we’ll be at the opposite side of the field my friend.” She showed her her black and red shirt with bats symbol in the middle. “But let’s meet later after the game and try to ambush those two! I want to get their autographs too, you know!” She knew it’s not going to be easy now, the two have already became famous in the Quidditch world. The lady at the counter finally called for her number to give her order. "Thank you!"

Edited by Pippa Miller, 08 August 2020 - 08:17 AM.

[The Daily Prophet Press Post]

 

It was the first big event of the year; the championship game between the two big teams. Generally for the smaller matches, he would let his team under Jessica cover it  since she was pretty good at it; but for the big match he had asked the whole team to help around as much as they can. The Daily Prophet was a smaller team of really passionate journalists, and while each excelled in the area that they were a part of - in big events like these they had to support each other. That was one shift he had seen from the Oracle, where everyone was still very much into silos work. Working in a small team like this was certainly a lot more exciting for Vlad since there were a lot of chances of interaction between them. 

 

The gates had just been thrown open for the crowd, and after looking over at the most crowded area and making sure they had it covered, he made his way to the stands, where also you will generally find a lot of people. While this area generally required less people, still they couldn't completely miss out on it. He looked around for members of his team as they were catching up. There were only a couple of people there, but maybe they could get started with them?

 

[Note : The Daily Propheters would possibly be randomly coming to your individual conversations and asking questions about the match, and telling you to pose for photos. If you are not okay with it, just PM us and we will rectify our post :) ]

Edited by Vladislav Dimitrov, 08 August 2020 - 01:44 PM.

Trying to explain to her parents what Quidditch was, was harder than she thought until Esme explained it was sort of like rugby on broomsticks which her dad was more than excited about and was happy to allow her to go. Although the girl had to tell a little white lie about going with some friends from camp that she met, but this was an experience that she would probably never get again. In terms of Muggle money, the ticket wasn't that expensive by Rugby World Cup standards in fact it was quite reasonable.

She had some money and was standing in the queue to get something to eat and drink, having been to the loos before getting here. Eying up the menu, she spotted chips with curry sauce and her stomach rumbled at the thought of eating that with a bottle of cherry Pepsi Max because that was the best flavour, no matter what anyone said. What she found astonishing was just how many witches and wizards came together for this and that was the beauty of sport. It united people in a way that nothing else really could.

He hadn't been sitting in the seating area for long when Lae had basically demanded some coke. Rush had rolled his eyes at that since it just made him want to tell that she should not have come out because she is pregnant, but then, even he was in a snacky kind of mood. You don't go to a quidditch match without having nachos and salsa, come on. That is the basics. And the hotdogs. And alright, coke would be good too. Telling the two that he would get the food, because well then he can get whatever he wants, he headed towards the food stands. Thankfully he had enough with him, because he wasn't really earning right now but dad sent him enough to take care of himself. In the best possible terms, Rush was comfortable. He didn't really need to worry about money or anything. But he honestly could not wait to get a job, a reason why he was so jealous of Alex who was already working. The guy had been one year older to him in general, and then Rush had gotten left behind in one; hence here they were. Talking of whom, the guy was still nowhere to be found and now Rush was getting a little pissed. They had finally made plans of hanging out after so long. 

 

Nearing the food stand, he could hear some girls squealing which caused him to roll his eyes, but then he stopped and noticed the slender female (Pippa) who was some people ahead of him and was part of the duo that was doing the squealing. An automatic smile came over his face as he remembered her from the camp, though he didn't want to interrupt the squealing so he just stood there in the back waiting for the line to move ahead.

Of all the days, she forgot to refill her bottle of water. It was championship and before she go to the locker area. She was planning to take a peak to her son and husband. The problem is will people try to get her authograph and photo? She remembered it was quite hard to really be unnoticeable specially if the game is with your team. Kenmare Kestrels are playing today. She worries a lot sometimes but today was a day she feels confident. She doesn't really mind if some people ask for her autograph or have a photo. Kate was sociable and she does like attention sometimes. She saw the food stands and saw that the there are some people already there. She was wearing her cloak and beneath it is her Quidditch uniform. She then went to the stall. Suddenly thinking if maybe she can give his son later some sweets or anything. Her mom instincts are sometimes active. She ask the lady in the stall, "One bottled water and a pack of sweet candies please" She saw that the candy pouch has the team logo where she belong so it would be nice to give it to JK later. She smiled as she waited.

 

(You can ask Kate for a photograph or autograph if you want to while she is there) 

The game would be starting soon, but that didn't stop Carina from sneaking out of the locker rooms to find the food stand out in the general public area. One thing that sucked about being the player in a Quidditch game was that you typically didn't get to enjoy the yummy foods from the snack kiosks. Not today, however. She wouldn't go for anything too heavy, considering how much she'd be jerking and diving around. Now was not the time to be eating a full meal, that was for sure. So far, as people still arrived to the stadium, she was successful in remaining unnoticed, but she doubted it would stay that way once she actually reached the kiosk. She likely wouldn't be the only person there to grab food. As she approached, the Seeker recognized one of her team mates there and cracked a smile. Aha, so she wasn't the only one being sneaky. She popped in beside Kate and waited until the lady had finished giving her her things. "Could I get 2 chocolate chip cookies?" she asked, pointing through the glass. The little bit of sugar would give her that extra bit of euphoria heading into the game. 

Austin wasn't much really the sports games attendee person, he would love to admire the guys from his flat, obviously just by looking at their photos on the magazines or newspapers, but really he had no clue even who was playing, he sort of dozed off at the details of who vs who was the match, but he just had to get out of the house and try to become a social butterfly again, or at least he was gonna try. So, he had been tasked to get the food and snacks, woopie! it was probably a great honor and would be made sure to order everything that was required for himself and his other fellow attendees to enjoy back at the seating area of the game and munch while watching the game, which for him it was gonna be sort of a clueless thing to do and not even sure who to root for, but he was gonna play it by the ear and see which team caught his eyes at. Such a difficult task they had bestowed upon themselves, but Austin was willing to give both of the team an opportunity to WOW him. As he stood in line behind two ladies, he didn't even knew whom they were and that they were actually part of one of the teams that was playing, so he was standing just clueless behind them and not knowing anything about them. As the que line moved slowly, he noticed on the ground what seemed a little keychain with charms, so he reached to pick it up from the ground, and wondered who had dropped it. "Umm. Did anyone drop this?" he asked looking at the cute charms, though he was sure it had to belong to someone in line, and probably meant a big deal to them, so he couldn't bare to just keep it for himself. 

Edited by Austin Berquire, 08 August 2020 - 03:22 PM.

Carina watched the woman working the kiosk. It was going to be a very hectic day for her, although she supposed once the game started, not as many people would be so willing to leave their seats. Before and after were really the worst periods of time for snack traffic. In fact, the Seeker was pretty lucky that it wasn't packed tight right this moment as people arrived and grabbed their seats. Hearing someone behind her (Austin), she twisted around and examined the thing in his hand. It looked like some sort of keychain. "Nope, not mine. Kate, is it yours?" she asked, lightly nudging Kate. In any case, hopefully the lad managed to find its owner, whoever that person may be. A bit hard when you were in such a public space crowded with this many people, though. 

 

The Seeker turned back around to find herself faced with a woman sporting her number (Georgeanne). Even before she opened her mouth again, Carina knew what she was about to ask. "Sure thing," she replied with a friendly smile. "Nice shirt by the way," she commented, tossing the woman a wink. Once she had the pen in hand, she did a quick visual survey. "What is it that you'd like me to sign?" she asked, clicking the pen open. 

Diana hadn't wanted to come with Harley so the man was reduced to spending another afternoon by himself. He didn't mind it but lately he had been feeling really disconnected from his girlfriend and their hectic schedules meant that they didn't spend as much time together as he would have hoped and that was why he kept advocating to have her move in with him, something that she flat our refused to do. Yeah, he understood why she didn't want to but it didn't mean he was happy about it. That's how he found himself waiting in line to get something to eat before the match started. As he did, he spotted Georgeanne around and next to her Carina. He wasn't able to see what they were doing but they both seemed to be rather busy so he didn't want to interrupt. He did wave at them from afar so that when they were done he could go talk to them.

Okay this sucks, even though they have plenty of food available inside for the players, Alaric is suddenly craving for hotdogs and he can't get that from the buffet of healthy food. He noticed few food stalls outside though and so after he wore his Bats uniform, Alaric simply escaped their locker room and went outside for a quick snack. He was mobbed again but thankfully, they respected his "no comment" response and leave him be. He made a run towards the food stalls before anyone can notice a bats is casually walking along the hallway. Alaric only made a sigh of relief once he's able to go outside and was surprised to see Carina and Kate there. "Look who's here. Craving for unhealthy food too rather than the extravagant food inside?" Alaric teased as he joined Carina in the queue. He whispered, "Please buy mine too, I don't want to wait anymore, I'm staaaarving! Hotdog please and lemonade." He smiled to the two ladies with them (Georgeanne and Pippa)

“Oh, that’s soo nice! Please tell Dax I said hi. And congratulations to him for getting a job in Daily prophet. How about you? Did you finally grace Azkaban with your presence?” She laughed softly, G told her before she’s undecided if she’ll work in Azkaban or not, her uncertainty mainly rooted to the fact that the place is depressing. She had never been there yet, but she read and heard enough to believe the stories about the place. As she hugged G, Pippa took note of the familiar handsome guy (Rush) in the queue whom she met in the summer camp. She smiled and waved at him, “Hi Rush! Glad to see you here too!” Does it mean Alex would be with him too? Pippa wondered but didn’t fuss about it too much. She was here to watch the final match and give her support to her close friends.

 

Someone shouted if anyone dropped anything, Pippa checked her small backpack and noticed the keychain which she bought from France was gone. She quickly raised her hand to get the man’s (Austin) attention, “Urhm. That would be mine.. thank you!” She approached him to get the key chain.

 

G expressed her support for KK and Pippa couldn’t help but laughed and then put her hand on her waist. With a raised brow, she smirked at her friend. “Oh no no no, it’s the Bats who will win this game G.” She glanced down on her shirt, “I know right! I’ll be proud to show this to Alec and Tori later but hopefully we’ll get to meet any pro-quidditch player from the two teams, I would be fun!” She just finished saying that when G suddenly squeezed her arm, “Wha--” and pointed at the people (Carina and Kate) who’s on the line behind them. Pippa’s eyes narrowed again, “Oh my..just when you thought you want to meet them, they sudden came appearing out of nowhere!” What a lucky day! “Heck I want that too!” Screw it, she’s fan-girling too! If that’s a crime, then put her in jail after this! Her friend literally dragged her to the two girls, Pippa beamed at them, “Miss Thomas, Miss Hyun. I am Pippa, it’s an honor to meet you both!” She controlled the urge to squeal in excitement. Even though she’s wearing the Bats shirt and should be screaming for Bats, it would still be fun getting these two ladies’ autograph! She blushed though when Miss Thomas glanced at G’s shirt while Pippa is wearing Black and Red. Talk about awkward chance. It was in that moment too when one of the Bats (Alaric) came out and directly approach Miss Thomas. Pippa grabbed G’s hand and this time she was the one who squeezed it hard, “G, pinch me….I see one Bats member, pinch me!” she whispered as she looked at the guy who plays Chaser, “Hi!” she squeaked, “I’m Pippa….Mind if I get your autograph too? I am a fan of your team…” she breathed out in admiration. The food area is getting crowded now because of the presence of the Quidditch players, she even noticed some reporters there now too. Oh boy...oh boy...

Edited by Pippa Miller, 08 August 2020 - 10:51 PM.

Lavi was parched. And she had seen Ric make his way outside the locker room from the far corner, so she figured even he might be a little hungry as well. Deciding to follow the twin out, she got up from her seat on the stands and very gingerly stepped across people to get to the food stands. There were reporters everywhere. Literally everywhere. But more than that, there were redheads. What was up with so many gingers around, was it a Weasley family reunion? Finally managing to navigate out, she headed towards the food stands - only to see her twin swamped with fans already, causing her to grin. And there was Carina there as well! She and Ric were inseparable during their kid days; and well, after Maeve, Carina was whom Lavi had totally wanted Ric to get together with - the Maeve bias coming because the girl was her best friend.

 

"Hey Carina! All prepped up to going against this guy?" Lavi spoke in a teasing manner, slinging her arm around Ric's shoulders as she neared the group, smiling at the other Kites lady (Kate). There were reporters here as well, and it was so weird seeing her brother be the center of the hype. "Hey, get me something, twinnie. The line is too long." She nudged Ric lightly and whispered to him. Of course he was one of the players, he would be allowed to break the line right? For the twin? She was all prepped up with her puppy dog eyes in case he says no.

Edited by Lavinia Byrne, 09 August 2020 - 01:43 AM.

From afar, Carina spotted a familiar face, and she waved over at Harley with a smile before turning back to the eagerly awaiting fan (G). Giving autographs was a bit of an art—one she was quite experienced in at this point. "Pleasure meeting you, Georgeanne. Glad you made it out to the game today, cause it's bound to be a good one," she told the woman brightly. Upon turning around, the Seeker was finally met with the surface she was meant to be signing. Tilting her head in focus, she scrawled the requested message in her loopy lettering before adding her signature beneath. "Voila," she said before passing the pen along to Kate. During this time, the fan also asked for a handshake. Carina held her hand out and gave the woman her typical firm shake. The other girl that she was with (Pippa) also addressed them. "Lovely meeting you, Pippa," she responded with a slight bow of her head.

 

From the side, she saw Alaric walking over, and she shook her head. "You know I'm a woman of simple taste. Just give me some sugar and I'm good to go." She wouldn't deny that Kate's bag of candy looked really good too, but the cookies would suffice. When asked to pay for his order, Carina playfully rolled her eyes. "Oh alright, I guess I might as well pay you a little consolation prize in advance," she told him with a wink before turning to the food stand lady. She dug into her pocket and extracted a few more coins, slapping them onto the counter. While waiting for Alaric's hotdog to get made, she turned back to the group and had to suppress a laugh with a hand in front of her mouth as Georgeanne straight-up told Al that she preferred the Kestrels before asking for his autograph. While Pippa and Georgeanne were busy fawning over Alaric, Lavi came by, cause that's what twins did, wasn't it? "You bet I am. My whole life has been leading up to this, after all, and I intend on making it count." The food lady passed the hot dog and lemonade over to her, and she handed them over to Alaric. With her hands now free, she reached into her clear cellophane bag and pulled out one of the two cookies. Eventually she'd have to return to the locker rooms, so these two cookies needed to disappear into her stomach asap.