After arriving and taking their seats in the minister’s box (a perk Hermione had said came with the job) Ginny took out her notepad and began to hastily scribble notes for her column in the Daily Prophet. Not a minute later a tall man with an emerald green cloak stepped out into the centre of the pitch, held his wand to his throat and spoke in a magnified voice. ‘LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. WELCOME TO THE 2021 QUIDDITCH LEAGUE CUP! TODAY WE HAVE PUDDLEMERE UNITED’ as he said this one half of the crowd roared manically ‘PLAYING AGAINST THE CHUDLEY CANONS!’ the other half of the crowd then cheered even louder. ‘BUT BEFORE THE GAME BEGINS, PLEASE WELCOME THE ONE, THE ONLY MRS CELESTINA WARBECK TO PERFORM HER HIT SINGLE BEAT THOSE BLUDGERS BACK BOYS!’ and with this the entire stadium roared (especially Mrs Weasley who had been wanting to see Celestina live for years). After finishing her song, Celestina was met with a standing ovation from most of the crowd before bowing gracefully. The tall wizard in the emerald robes then returned to the centre of the field. ‘THAT WAS MRS CELESTINA WARBECK! NOW, CAN WE HEAR SOME APPLAUSE FOR PUDDLEMER UNITED?!’ as he said this, seven people (three men and four women) flew over his head in their navy-blue robes and created their club emblem (two crossed golden bulrushes) in the air. At the same time the Puddlemere United fans went crazy. ‘AND THE CHUDLEY CANONS?!’ continued the wizard. At these words the Chudley Canons flew into the stadium and enchanted the air to make enormous bludgers fly across the pitch and explode into large orange fireworks which formed the team motto before the Puddlemere United fans. After the excitement died down a little, the wizard in the emerald robe continued. ‘VERY GOOD, VERY GOOD! NOW. LET THE GAME. BEGIN!’ With these words the snitch was released and the game begun. ‘Chudley Canons Goldstein is in possession; he narrowly dodges that bludger’ said the man in the emerald robes who was the commentator for the match. There was a collective ‘ooooh’ from the crowd as the bludger turned once again and narrowly missed the man on the broom. ‘Goldstein shoots, HE SCORES! That’s ten nil to Chudley Canons’ The crowd roared. ‘Puddlemere now in possession, Smith ducks, she dives, passes to Lynch, she’s going for it… she shoots, SHE MISSES! The score remains ten nil to the Chudley Canons. Very nice save from the Canons keeper Wright who is now on his third year with the club and has clearly trained hard for today’. The game raged on for over three hours before the Snitch was even sighted (by the Chudley Canons seeker Walsh) before being lost again for another two hours when it was once again sighted (this time by the Puddlemere seeker Thomson) who, after narrowly dodging a bludger to the head, caught the snitch and ended the game. ‘AND HE’S DONE IT!’ yelled the wizard ‘THOMSON HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH AND GIVEN PUDDLEMERE 150 POINTS WINNING THEM THE GAME WITH A SCORE OF 470, OPPOSED TO THE CHUDLEY CANONS 460!’

For days after the match everyone seemed to be talking about it, Molly was just glad she had finally been able to see Celestina Warbeck who, in her opinion, was even better live than she was on her albums. James was judging each player by their broom and was constantly asking who flew the fastest so he could decide which broom to buy himself when they went to Diagon Alley and Ron seemed to have entered a deep depression (‘if only Goldstein had scored those two shots he could’ve won us the game!’ ‘They did so well this year, they will definitely win next year’ ‘Maybe they just need a new manager, I mean that Donelley is really no good when you think about it’).

After Harry’s birthday (which was celebrated with a cake after the quidditch match) was done with August flew by. The final weeks of August were scorching hot and Albus spent most of the days in the fields near Malfoy Manor playing quidditch with Scorpius (both were getting rather good at the game and had become even more enthused with the sport after seeing the recent match). Tt was apparent, however, that the weather would be short lived as the last week of the month was filled with wind, storms and hail. On the twenty-seventh of the month Albus woke up early and got dressed in his warmest clothes. When he went downstairs he found Lily sitting by the fire scribbling a note which had tiny love heart bubbles surrounding it, upon seeing Albus she hastily shoved it into an envelope. Albus simply raised his eyebrows and smiled. ‘Please’ pleaded Lily ‘don’t tell James! You know what he’s like, he’ll only make fun of me!’ Albus laughed aloud. ‘Ha, ha! I’m sorry but a love note, really? Who are you sending it to?’ asked Albus ‘That’s none of your business but please, don’t tell him’. Begged Lily, Albus smiled yet again before walking to the kitchen.

Albus walked in to see Ginny cooking a large batch of pancakes. ‘Morning’ she said with a smile before waving her wand, a second later five plates flew out of the cupboard and landed smoothly on the table. Another wave of her wand and the pancakes flew, two to each plate. ‘Lily, Harry, James!’ called Ginny. A moment later Lily and Harry had arrived but James was still absent. ‘James!’ she called again. When James finally entered the kitchen, he did so red faced and pink haired. Everyone at the table began to laugh except for Ginny. ‘Which one of you did it?!’ asked James angrily. ‘I know one of you replaced my comb with the one uncle Ron gave me last year!’ ‘I thought you would’ve thrown that out’ said Albus. ‘I did, or at least I thought I did’. James looked around the room before running upstairs. When he came back down twenty minutes later everyone had finished their pancakes and his hair was back too normal. After he quickly ate his pancakes which had gone cold, the family headed to the fireplace and a couple of minutes later they were all standing in the Leaky Cauldron.

Sorry, I had to trim that there because of a 10,000 character limit.

Anyway, like I said any and all feedback is appreciated.

Can anyone recommend any, preferably short, humorous stories, I'd like a laugh today.