By two hours, they had decided it was a bad idea to cancel the match because they might end up with a school-wide riot on their hands, judging by the amount of yelling that was happening in both scarlet- and blue-clad crowds, and they were also rather wishing something as simple as combustion would happen. Several of the brooms had attempted to pretend to be various pieces of furniture (Fred Weasley, to his evident confusion, had spent almost five minutes flying around on a squashy armchair), everything and everyone on the field had changed colour at least twice, and Oliver Wood had had an extra arm for an entire minute.