Chapter 73 - One Against all of Ravenclaw.

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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"What?" the Hufflepuff student couldn't help but blurt out, his tone showing just how lost he was at the sight of that scene.

"Wait! Let me speak." Professor McGonagall quickly stepped up to the magical artifact that amplified one's voice, similar to a Muggle microphone. "Mr. Snape, what do you mean you're going to play alone? Where are the Slytherin students?" she asked as the entire field fell silent.

Severus turned to her. "Professor McGonagall, I was the last one to come to the field, and when I arrived at the changing room just now, I found everyone asleep. I tried to wake them up, but I couldn't wake them at all. So, rather than forfeit the match, I thought I'd play by myself. Even if it's just me alone against the entire team, there's still a chance of winning." Severus said those words without placing his wand against his throat or casting any spell.

He himself used his own mana, as he used to do in his other life, to project his voice so loudly. After all, he needed to speak to entire armies and give commands in the middle of wars filled with chaos and screams, from both men and horses. So, it was no surprise that his voice echoed throughout the entire Quidditch pitch.

"This..." Professor McGonagall quickly looked at Slughorn.

"I'll check," he simply said before running toward the Slytherin changing room. Dumbledore went as well, but did so more quickly, using Apparition.

Meanwhile, murmurs began throughout the stadium, everyone wondering what had happened to Slytherin, while Severus listened calmly.

He could hear the Slytherins already blaming Ravenclaw for some treacherous scheme. It was obvious that the Slytherins themselves would say Ravenclaw was responsible for it, but Severus pretended not to know anything. He also doubted that even the members of the Slytherin team would start shouting about exactly what had happened. It would be far too humiliating to admit that a single student had overpowered the entire team and made them pass out.

Only if they were filled with hatred would they clearly seek revenge against Severus.

Severus had also cleared the entire area of any traces of the potion he had used. They might even say that some effect had caused them to pass out through the air, but they wouldn't know how to explain exactly what had happened or how to wake them up, since the potion Severus had made was highly sedative and unknown, using plants he himself had created for that purpose. Not even spells would be able to wake them unless their nerves were exposed to a stimulant, something Severus doubted would happen.

In any case, he waited in silence.

He could feel Madam Hooch's gaze on him. "Are you sure you're going to play, boy? Do you see all 7 of those students in front of you? Do you think you can handle all of them?" she asked in a tone full of suspicion.

"You can't beat us," said one of the two girls on the Ravenclaw team; she was a seventh-year student.

Even the other students agreed, while Severus smiled at them all. "I'm not going to give up like that, Miss Fawcett. If I give up now, who could restore Slytherin's pride and its honor?" he said calmly, while he saw many Slytherins quickly beginning to support him from the stands.

"I'll say this, Mr. Snape, you're very brave, perhaps too brave for your own good. But fine, if you want to play, you'll play. Just don't cry or use this as an excuse when it's over. I know you Slytherins are going to blame us, but we have nothing to do with this. We don't need to resort to certain methods you tend to use," one of the boys said, full of disdain.

Severus merely shrugged. He wasn't going to take part in a childish argument.

While the exchange of words between Severus and the Ravenclaw team was taking place, Professor Dumbledore appeared in the changing room, staring at all the students simply lying there unconscious. Some were in rather strange positions, with part of their bodies still on the sofa and their torsos slumped onto the floor, as though they had passed out in the middle of a movement.

Dumbledore couldn't help but look at all those students, and there were quite a few of them, all sprawled across the floor, and quickly began casting several spells to try to discover what had happened. Slughorn entered shortly afterward, drenched in sweat, observing the place with considerable astonishment.

"By Merlin, what happened here?" the professor said, touching one of the students. "Are they all right?"

Dumbledore nodded. He quickly tried casting several spells on the students, but none of them woke up. They all remained asleep, even though they appeared to be healthy.

"It doesn't seem serious, but whatever was done to them was certainly quite potent," Dumbledore explained. "They won't wake up for the next few hours, but it doesn't appear to be permanent."

"They inhaled it through the air. It wasn't a spell," Slughorn soon noticed, while Dumbledore nodded, having already realized the same thing.

"What are we going to do? Mr. Snape is the only one playing."

Dumbledore continued looking at the fallen bodies. He even adjusted some of them so they certainly wouldn't be in pain later because of the unnatural positions they were in and conjured beds for each of them.

"I would say the match was lost, but since Mr. Snape said he would play, I see no reason not to take him at his word," Dumbledore said, while Slughorn nodded.

"All right, all right. Let's continue the match," Slughorn said in the end.

Dumbledore nodded, not failing to give the students one last look. He certainly thought that the ability to render them unconscious, even resisting the spells used to try to wake them, as well as the lack of evidence as to who had caused it, pointed to one person.

Given the hostility he knew existed between Severus and much of Slytherin, Dumbledore was no fool and was beginning to reach the conclusion that the one who had done it was Severus himself, who was now saying that he would play alone.

Dumbledore couldn't help but think that things were becoming quite dangerous in Slytherin. But what else could he do at that moment? He merely sighed and teleported using Apparition, returning to the stadium before looking at McGonagall and nodding.

"You may continue the match. If Mr. Snape is so willing to play, then let him do so." With those words, he sat down on the bench, while Professor McGonagall picked up the magical artifact that amplified her voice.

"Mr. Snape, are you sure you're going to play alone against the entire team until the end?"

"Of course, Professor. I'll fight to the end for my House and honor Slytherin." Severus made that quite clear, quickly drawing a barrage of applause from the Slytherin stands when they heard his words. Even those who still looked at him with hostility couldn't help but applaud his statement.

He wanted to gain some prestige and take control of Slytherin to lead it down a better path than the one it was currently following, and this was the best chance to make a name for himself at the beginning of this school year. Today would be a day for a new chapter in Hogwarts Quidditch history. Perhaps he wasn't the first student to take on an entire team alone, but he would certainly be the first there. Even though people thought he had no chance of winning, they were still quite impressed by his courage. After all, Quidditch wasn't harmless.

"He's going to play!" Heloísa couldn't help but get excited in her seat. She wasn't with Slytherin, obviously, but alongside some Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students.

Before long, the applause was no longer limited to the Slytherin section. Many people in the stadium began applauding Severus's words and courage. Especially those who knew him, whether from afternoons spent together, potion experiments, or even those who had attended his lessons over the past week.

"This really is inspiring, even if it's against my House!" Xenophilius Lovegood was holding two House flags and blowing a whistle after Severus's words.

"Should you really be holding two flags? Won't your House be upset?" Pandora couldn't help but look cautiously at her friend, or rather, boyfriend, seeing those two flags in his hands, one for Slytherin and the other for Ravenclaw, as though he were cheering for both.

"They know Severus and I are friends." Lovegood merely shrugged.

"Hey, hey! Are you serious? That bastard just wants attention!" James couldn't help but grumble angrily from a corner.

Of course he wanted to watch Severus's match. He wanted to see him lose along with Slytherin and become a laughingstock. He also wanted to find out whether everything people said about his training and his strange performance was actually true. Obviously, he didn't believe it very much, or rather, he didn't want to believe it.

But things were becoming quite irritating with Severus drawing all that attention.

"Don't worry, James. Soon he'll be humiliated by the Ravenclaw team," Black said, trying to calm his friend. Just like James, he was also thirsting for revenge. It had already been two weeks since they'd managed to do anything against Snivellus, while they had been beaten and robbed as well.

"Yeah. While Snivellus is out there boasting and acting like some hero, we're already trying to get our things back," James said.

They had sent Peter directly to Slytherin using his Animagus form to search through Severus's belongings for the Map and the Cloak. It was something they would never give up on so easily. Either they would get their things back, or they would certainly seek revenge.

"This is so cool!" A female voice echoed beside Lily.

She couldn't help but look at Marlene with a strange expression as she stared at her friend.

"What? Isn't he super cool for doing this?" Marlene said, not hiding her excitement.

"Whether you hate or love Snape, he's certainly quite entertaining to watch. At this rate, I'd even believe Severus could have been in Gryffindor, acting like this," Mary replied from the other side, while Lily didn't know what to say about her friends. They had certainly hated Severus until a few months ago, and now they acted like schoolgirls with a crush, the same way they liked to talk about the most handsome boys at school whenever they were together.

Now, on the field, Severus was oblivious to what was happening in the stands. He could hear many conversations, some still accusing Ravenclaw of playing dirty, others mocking Slytherin for running away in fear or saying that Severus would be humiliated there, but none of that mattered.

Madam Hooch began organizing everything. "Everyone, take your positions," she said, looking at all the Ravenclaw students and their brooms, while there was only one from Slytherin. She still couldn't help but frown at such an unusual scene. It was obvious that she had never seen anything like it before. She merely shook her head and began arranging the balls, heading down to the ground.

"Septimus, Cassandra, get into position. It doesn't matter if there's only one of him, we're going to humiliate that Slytherin," Captain Fairbourne said, while Severus still appeared relaxed, but quickly adjusted his broom, staring at all the players without showing any hesitation.

The balls were quickly released by Madam Hooch, shooting across the field, while Severus sped forward on his broom, not after the Golden Snitch. Instead, he pulled a bat from the ring and flew underneath, reaching the space ahead of the Ravenclaw team. A Bludger appeared in his path, and Severus struck it with the bat so hard that the ball shot straight toward the captain, while, with his other hand, Severus grabbed the Quaffle and put the bat back into the ring.

The captain was startled when the Bludger came flying toward him, striking him hard and knocking him off his broom, making the entire stadium let out a cry of surprise. But Severus didn't stop. He simply shot toward the goal, causing all the Ravenclaw players to quickly try to stop him.

"Stop him! Get in front of him!" another member of the team shouted.

Severus quickly maneuvered his broom, dodging the first player as he flew upward and made the person pass right beneath him. Then he came back down, leaning his body, while two other players collided with a groan. Severus sped forward, seeing the Keeper ahead of him, when he sensed one of the Bludgers coming his way. He quickly dodged it, while even the Keeper had to do the same, opening a gap for him.

"Goal!" Severus simply launched the Quaffle, sending it through the open hoop as the sound signaling the point echoed.

"Ten points to Slytherin!" said the commentator, but even he seemed incredulous, while several rounds of applause quickly began. Those who hadn't believed in Severus simply stared, dumbfounded at the first points scored in the match.

Severus had the advantage at that moment as he returned to his side of the field, waiting while the Bludgers came after him and Ravenclaw carried the Quaffle.

He couldn't help but look at his birds, with several of them perched on each of the towers. At least two were there watching, while Severus connected his mind and shared the vision of each of them, giving him a complete view of the field. He could even already tell where the Snitch was, but why catch it so early? He didn't even care that the Ravenclaw girl was searching for it.

The Quaffle quickly moved out onto the field. Three Ravenclaw students flew forward, and even the captain had already returned despite the pain. Severus sensed someone hit a Bludger toward him and dodged it, twisting his body. Of course, the Bludger was already circling back to try to hit him again. He saw the Quaffle coming with a woman on the left and quickly shot toward her. Seeing this, she simply threw the Quaffle to another teammate so she could race toward the other side of the field with an advantage before Severus could reach her.

But he did something no one could have predicted. Severus shot forward with an explosion of speed, using his own magic to make even the school broom reach a much greater speed, gaining an enormous burst of acceleration. He crossed several meters in an instant until he reached the Quaffle and simply caught it, making all the Ravenclaws desperately race after him.

Severus dodged another Bludger while still having the first one behind him. He continued cutting across the field with great agility before advancing toward the goal and, this time, he didn't let the Bludger create an opening. He simply hurled the Quaffle with immense force toward one of the three hoops, with the Keeper unable to reach it, while the sound signaling the point echoed once again.

"Twenty points to Slytherin!" the commentator shouted. "The score is twenty to zero! It's an entire team against a single person... And that person, all by himself, is winning?! A-am I dreaming?" he muttered.

Severus didn't care about the anger he could see in his opponents at that moment, as he dodged another Bludger and returned to the middle of the field.

"Damn, that bastard is good! How come he never joined the team before?" the Ravenclaw captain said from the ground after being rescued by Madam Hooch, looking at Severus with eyes full of disbelief before mounting his broom and turning to the Seeker. "Cassandra, nothing yet?" he asked.

The fifth-year girl shook her head, a little nervous. She hadn't found the Snitch yet, and even Severus's performance was distracting her, making her watch the match more than search for the Golden Snitch.

"We'll keep distracting him here. Catch the Snitch," the captain finally said.

She nodded and quickly resumed her search, while the others began advancing again, this time more wary of Severus's burst of speed after Madam Hooch confirmed that it wasn't against the rules.

This time, Severus couldn't reach the ball, watching it move in a zigzag as the students played well, getting past him and scoring a goal without difficulty, since there was no Keeper. He also had to dodge the two Bludgers that continued relentlessly chasing him.

Severus grabbed the Quaffle and summoned another bat before striking one of the Bludgers with such force that it shot toward Chaser Fawcett, catching her by surprise. When she had to move her broom as quickly as possible to the right, Severus shot forward, gaining space on that side of the field and quickly continuing his advance.

"By Merlin, they can't stop him!" the commentator shouted as he watched Severus practically toy with them. Some collided with each other when he dodged them, while Severus turned his broom however he wanted without falling, until he reached the Keeper and scored another point before dodging another Bludger.

"I must admit, this is fun." Severus laughed at Ravenclaw's frustration.

The score was thirty to ten, still with a twenty-point advantage for Slytherin. They quickly tried to use the same strategy as before, but this time they became too anxious, launching the Quaffle toward the goal before getting close enough. This gave Severus the chance to shoot forward on his broom, catching the ball before it passed through the hoop.

"Not this time." Severus said with a small smile and simply shot forward, once again toying with them in the middle of the field while he listened to the entire Slytherin section applauding him.

Moving at high speed, he even flew over a nearby stand, while the wind swept through the area and made everyone duck their heads. Pursued by four players, he weaved between the towers before shooting back onto the field, unleashing another burst of speed and leaving his pursuers behind, even the Bludgers.

Out of the corner of his eye, Severus saw that the Ravenclaw Seeker had finally found the Golden Snitch and was beginning to fix her eyes on it before moving forward. Severus shot ahead, scored another 10 points and then turned his broom, simply soaring into the sky.

The score was forty to ten, with the commentator shouting.

Now, the Golden Snitch was much more important. After all, as soon as the girl caught it, if he didn't have a lead of one hundred and fifty points by the end, he would lose the match. Even though he was gaining an advantage at that moment, it would be impossible to maintain it forever. After all, they would eventually adapt to playing against him alone.

Severus simply shot forward, forgetting about the goal and even the score, while Ravenclaw quickly regrouped and advanced toward the other side of the field, no longer having Severus there to try to take the Quaffle.

The girl was chasing after the Snitch when she saw a burst of speed coming from behind her. She couldn't help but panic when she saw Severus approaching with a smile on his face.

When he got close to her, Severus maintained his friendly smile. "May the best one win," he said calmly for her to hear, making the girl's panic grow even greater.

"Forty to twenty, still for Slytherin!" the commentator shouted after Ravenclaw scored another point, while the Ravenclaw captain looked at the two chasing after the small object. "They're after the Golden Snitch! Don't let Slytherin catch it under any circumstances! He's already distracted us too much here!"

The initial plan for the match was to leave only a few players scoring points, while most of them would keep an eye on Severus to try to knock him down or hinder him, allowing their Seeker to catch the Golden Snitch. They simply hadn't expected to start losing so embarrassingly to Severus. Almost the entire team now needed to regain the initiative, while the Beaters readied their bats to send the Bludgers at him.

The Golden Snitch continued rising before it began to descend, with Severus and the girl making the turn and shooting downward through the stadium, while everyone went into a frenzy.

Another point was scored, now with only two people advancing to score the goal.

"Forty to thirty!" the commentator announced, but his attention was far more focused on Severus and the opposing Seeker racing after the Snitch.

The Ravenclaw team was also beginning to form a blockade around Severus. He quickly dodged a Bludger sent by one of the Beaters and continued forward, gaining more and more speed, even though his broom seemed far simpler and cheaper than the renowned Nimbus 99 the Ravenclaw girl was using.

Even so, Severus continued using his magic to increase the broom's speed even further, pushing it beyond the very limit it was supposed to withstand.

A Bludger came at him from behind, and Severus ducked at the exact moment, making both the team and the entire audience stare in horror at what he had just done.

"How... how did he dodge that Bludger without even seeing it coming...?" the commentator couldn't help but ask, shocked.

Severus was, obviously, using his birds' eyes to see what was happening behind him, but no one knew that.

The Golden Snitch flew close to the grass, and the Ravenclaw players began to appear, not to catch it, but merely to hinder Severus. He quickly dodged the first one who tried to grab him, giving the Ravenclaw girl a chance to reach the Snitch.

At that moment, Severus simply shot forward once again, gaining even more speed as he was already beginning to catch up with her. He quickly saw other students flying toward him to try to stop him. He had to catch the Snitch now.

He could even see his broom beginning to catch fire behind him. It seemed to have reached its absolute limit after Severus forced the broom's own runes like a runemaster, with small trails of smoke appearing, but Severus didn't stop, while the commentator began shouting upon realizing that his broom was giving off smoke and fire.

When the girl was already about to reach the Golden Snitch, stretching out her hand to grab it, Severus simply appeared beside her at an absurd speed and caught it before she could, leaving behind only a trail of smoke that made the girl completely lose sight of everything and panic.

"Ah! Ah!" She began screaming when she felt the ground approaching. She quickly realized that she wouldn't be able to pull back up.

"Close your eyes!" she heard someone say.

Before she could react, everything went dark. She felt something, or rather, someone grab her before the impact. Amid the smoke and screams of fear and surprise from the stadium, two brooms went flying and shattered, breaking into several pieces with the sound of splintering wood, while the entire stadium fell into a state of shock.

And two people also shot out of the smoke, with the Slytherin student crashing directly into the ground, while his body was dragged along, keeping the Ravenclaw girl protected in his arms.

Severus felt the impact. He couldn't call any of the phoenixes without revealing that he was cheating, much less leave that girl on her own. Not after seeing that she was going to fall because the smoke from his burning broom had blinded her. So he threw himself off his broom toward her, catching her.

He endured the full force of the impact himself after falling at more than one hundred and eighty kilometers per hour, when that broom's maximum speed was supposed to be only one hundred and thirty.

Severus simply endured it while his clothes were torn and his skin was scraped raw as he skidded across the grassy ground. He quickly used telekinesis to try to create some cushioning, even knowing that it wouldn't be enough. He also used healing to make his body regenerate while he continued being dragged for at least twenty meters, until he finally stopped, always keeping the girl away from the impact. He also used telekinesis to keep his body in that position throughout the entire distance.

The girl blinked a few times before looking, dazed, at the Slytherin who was holding her in his arms, while Severus gave her an apologetic smile. "Hey, are you okay?"

She didn't know what to say, while she could hear the other brooms approaching.

"Are you two all right?" Madam Hooch asked, looking at the grass, which had been marked by Severus's own body.

He looked at Madam Hooch and raised his hand as his only response, showing the Golden Snitch. "Looks like I won," he said, no longer caring about any incident.

Madam Hooch was speechless. Even Ravenclaw couldn't help but stare in shock at what had just happened. Both brooms had been destroyed, one practically burned away completely along its lower half, while the other had been broken by the impact.

On top of that, they had just lost the first match of the year to a single student.

"He... he... he won?" the commentator couldn't help but stammer.

"Yes, he won," Professor McGonagall replied, still looking lost.

The first round of applause came shortly afterward, with Dumbledore starting it as he stood up. "Fantastic! That was one of the best matches I've ever seen in my entire life, and clearly this match will go down in history!"

That quickly created an enormous wave of applause throughout the entire arena.

Severus Snape had caught the Golden Snitch. The match, which had been forty to fifty in Ravenclaw's favor, became one hundred and ninety to fifty for Slytherin. A huge uproar swept through the stadium, while everyone was already chanting Snape's name.

"Snape! Snape! Snape! Snape!"

Whether they were from Slytherin or not, what they had seen today was completely different from anything they had ever witnessed in Quidditch.

Severus laughed, while the girl remained in his arms, quite embarrassed. He stood up, touching his own back and looking at his ruined clothes, but his injuries were healing rapidly, to the point that when he showed his body to Madam Hooch, she was shocked to find no injuries at all.

Even so, he had to go to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey needed to examine him immediately to make sure he hadn't dislocated or broken any bones, refusing to even let him remain standing and forcing him onto a stretcher.

Even so, Severus left that stadium with his name echoing throughout the entire place.

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