Picture this: You don your house colors, grab several signs and buttons, and make your way out to the Quidditch Pitch to support your team in their latest match. You are with your friends -laughing and joking the entire way down (or up) through the castle and out to the grounds. As you approach the stands, however, you are stopped short by a rather large crowd gathered and blocking the way. The way I am told it, there was a bit of a traffic jam due to several students trying to take what Muggles call a 'selfie'. Why the extreme interest in such a thing? I cannot say for certain as I was not in attendance, but I'd guess that it had to do with the spectacle of the Black Lake's resident Giant Squid roaming around the spectator stands in what appeared to be some sort of modified/reverse Bubble-Head Charm. Several moving photographs of students with the squid were pinned up around the castle for weeks after the Gryffindor versus Slytherin match.
Now, where was I, you ask? Yours truly was stuck in detention that very morning with a very angry Professor McGonagall. If you ask me I'd say she was more upset to be missing the match than she was with the prank that I had 'allegedly' pulled involving the aforementioned Giant Squid, Squiddy as some of us called him, though technically he had been 'christened' Sebastian. He was my buddy, I'm glad that someone was kind enough to let him frolic about in the open. Squiddy had so much fun hugging all of the ickle firsties, especially the poor Hufflepuff boy who had fallen into the lake his first night here much like that Creevey boy did a few years back. If you'd like to hear more about his adventures, try reading the match here.
If enormous cephalopods are not your thing, I don't blame you (though you totally should love them). If you'd rather read something that's a bit more 'fun in the sun' and calm you could always reminisce with us about yachts and pink flamingo floaties near a man-made lake over here! Those Ravenclaws sure know their Transfiguration, right? It all goes to show that you just can't trust a Quidditch player, all sorts of hijinks go on year after year. How Madam Hooch hasn't run away screaming yet, I don't know. The one thing you can say, however, is that we know how to have some fun. I'd really love to see some of you join us out on the pitch, whenever that happens next.
I know that Quidditch has been undergoing a revamp for a rather lengthy bit of time but believe you me that once it comes back it will absolutely be worth the trouble! Keep your eyes peeled for all sorts of chances to participate in whatever the Magical Games & Sports folks have to offer us next!
This is a rather energetic Kalina, waiting on pins and needles, signing off!