The Top Box is absolutely amazing. Scorpius Malfoy couldn't stop grinning throughout the final of the Quidditch World Cup. Well, that was partly also because his best friend, Lily Potter, was responsible for getting England to the final against Bulgaria. Her brother, Albus, was positively shivering with excitement next to him. James was busy telling everyone in the Top Box that England's star Seeker was his little sister, which was pretty pointless seeing as almost everyone there was related to her. She wasn't, however, little anymore. She was nineteen. And she was the best Seeker in all of Europe.

'ENGLAND SCORES! 150-20 TO ENGLAND!' shouted the commentator, Ludo Bagman, who was old, but enthusiastic. Al, James, Scorpius, Harry, Ginny, Draco, Astoria, Teddy, Ron, Hermione, Hugo and Rose cheered like mad. Hugo was watching through his Omnioculars. Everyone was watching the agile Chasers play with rapt attention. However, a certain Malfoy had his eyes on the English Seeker.

Lily was hovering above all the action and scanning the pitch for any sign of the Snitch. She could not, under any circumstances, let the Bulgarian Seeker, Kalstoff, catch the Snitch. She turned towards Kalstoff and saw that he was staring at her. Of course, he was staring because if she moves towards the Snitch, all he'd have to do was follow, overtake and catch. However, Scorpius did not like his staring one bit. 'Creepy git,' he muttered.

'Eh?' Al said, distractedly. 'Nothing,' he replied. Suddenly, Lily sped towards the east of the stadium, with Kalstoff in pursuit. She slowed down a little, and let him take over. 'What the hell're you doing?' Ron screamed. 'LILY POTTER CATCH THE BLOODY SNITCH! DON'T LET HIM GET IT!' James bellowed. Scorpius wondered what had gotten into her, and was about to yell, when she turned the opposite direction and sped towards a speck of gold. Understanding that her eastward movement had merely been a faux trail, Scorpius began to cheer her on.

But Lily underestimated Kalstoff. As soon as he realized what she had done, he decided to intercept the Snitch by Lily's side. He turned a circle and swooped towards the Snitch. 'NO!' Al yelled, as Kalstoff seemed pretty close to the Snitch. Lily rushed towards the Snitch and stretched out her hand. All she had to do was close her fingers around it, when and massive figure lunged into her. She fell with her broomstick, Kalstoff, on top of her. The Bulgarian Seeker and crashed into Lily in an attempt to make her miss the Snitch. 'FOUL!' bellowed the all the English in the stadium. James was swearing at the top of his voice, along with Teddy and Ron. Scorpius was craning his neck to see if anything had happened to Lily for there was a crowd of Medi-wizards around the two of them.

Hugo began to laugh. Scorpius grabbed his Omnioculars and tried to see. He began to laugh too. The Medi-wizards weren't patching up wounds at all. They were restraining a livid Lily Potter from breaking Kalstoff's neck. 'Atta girl!' Teddy yelled, grinning widely. Ginny was shaking her head, but was grinning to. Oliver Wood, England's coach, ran onto the pitch, gave Lily a 'pep' talk and the game resumed. Kalstoff was grinning proudly. Lily was grinding her teeth. The English Beater, Bertie Andrews, aimed a Bludger straight at Kalstoff's face, but he managed to get out of the way.

The game was becoming extremely dirty indeed. All around, the players were trying to knock each other off their brooms. The Beaters were swinging their bats aimlessly and without care it seemed. Neither of the teams scored. Scorpius could see Lily getting frustrated. Her face was contorted with fury and concentration. Her straight brownish-red hair had been pulled into a long ponytail, but her fringe kept coming in her eye. She just kept swatting it away in an irritated manner. Scorpius couldn't stop the small smile that formed on his face. She looks extremely cute. Then he mentally slapped himself. Scorpius Malfoy does NOT say "cute".

After what seemed like ages to Lily, she saw the Snitch. Not bothering with diversionary tactics, she sped towards it. She could feel Kalstoff right behind her. He was getting closer…closer…'YES!' Lily had grabbed the Snitch out of the air before Kalstoff could get to it. After about ten seconds of the crowd processing what they saw, the stadium erupted in cheers and groans. The English team pounced on their Seeker the second she touched the ground. 'ENGLAND WINS!' yelled Bagman.

The Top Box was going mental. All around people were hugging each other. Scorpius' jaws ached from smiling. He and Al were hugging each other and jumping up and down. A small part of his brain hoped that Lily would never see that.

'I request the Bulgarians, who played beautifully (the crowd booed), to come up and collect their trophies,' said Bagman, sounding delighted. The Bulgarians entered the Top Box to collect their (the Potter brothers were satisfied to see) rather small trophies. Ron gave Kalstoff an extremely dirty look. James was about to scream at him, but Ginny gave him an even dirtier look, so he restrained from doing so. 'Now I request the English team to come up and collect the World Cup!'

The whole team, all grinning madly, reached the Top Box. Lily gave her family a wide smile before collecting the Cup, she being the captain. As the crowd shrieked and roared, she handed the Cup to one of her teammates. As she left the Top Box, Scorpius caught her eye. She smiled even more widely, if that were possible and winked at him. Scorpius grinned back but his legs felt like jelly.

Oh, how he could not wait for the after party.