"You're exasperating." she rolled her eyes, but she went with them to the Gryffindor Hufflepuff Quidditch Game. It was a massacre that had Slytherin in tears of laughter at the end. The very best thing you could say about the match was that it was short; the spectators had to endure only twenty-two minutes of agony. It was hard to say what the worst thing was: Hermione thought it was a close-run contest between Weasley's fourteenth failed save, Sloper missing the Bludger but hitting Johnson in the mouth with his bat, and Kirke shrieking and falling backwards off his broom when Zacharias Smith zoomed at him carrying the Quaffle. The miracle was that Gryffindor only lost by ten points: Ginny Weasley managed to snatch the Snitch from right under Hufflepuff Seeker Summerby's nose, so that the final score was two hundred and forty versus two hundred and thirty.