Gryffindor Quidditch Match versus Hufflepuff Quidditch Match, 1993

**Fred Weasley**: "*I don't know why you’re worried, Oliver, Hufflepuff is a pushover. Last time we played them, Harry caught the Snitch in about five minutes, remember?*"
**Oliver Wood**: We were playing in completely different conditions! Diggory's put a very strong side together! He's an excellent Seeker! I was afraid you'd take it like this! We mustn’t relax! We must keep our focus! Slytherin is trying to wrong-foot us! We must win!
**Fred Weasley**: "*Oliver, calm down! We're taking Hufflepuff very seriously. Seriously.*"
— Preparations for the match, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The **Quidditch match** between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff took place in ***November*** 1993. Hufflepuff won when ***Cedric Diggory*** caught the snitch when Harry Potter fell from his broom due to the presences of ***Dementors***.

## Event Known Information

### Participants

* Gryffindor Quidditch team\*Hufflepuff Quidditch team

### Date

6 November 1993

The game was originally meant to be played by Slytherin instead of Hufflepuff until Draco Malfoy was hurt by ***Buckbeak***, and Slytherin decided they had to change the date they played.

## History

### The match

> At least a hundred dementors, their hidden faces pointing up at him, were standing beneath him. It was as though freezing water were rising in his chest, cutting at his insides. And then he heard it again.... Someone was screaming, screaming inside his head... a woman...
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> Dementors having invaded the Quidditch pitch, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The game was played in a downpour of rain, ferocious wind, thunder, and lightning. The wind was that powerful, the players staggered sideways as they walked onto the very muddy pitch. The sound of the thunder drowned out the crowd's shouts. ***Madam Hooch***'s whistle to start the match coincided with the first bolt of lightning. Harry's vision was hindered by the constant raindrops on his glasses and he was almost struck by a Bludger twice.

Gryffindor took the lead and were winning by fifty points. The ***captain*** of the Gryffindor team then asked for a time-out for the team to regather themselves due to the weather. When the game started again, both Cedric and Harry saw the snitch and both went after it to win the game. En route, at least one hundred Dementors arrived at the game and attacked Harry making him fall from his broom. He was saved by Albus Dumbledore. Cedric managed to win the snitch and then realised what had happened to Harry. Hufflepuff won the game by one hundred points. Harry’s Nimbus 2000 fell into the Whomping Willow and was destroyed.

### Aftermath

> Everybody said hi back except Fred and George, who merely nodded. They had never quite forgiven Cedric for beating their team, Gryffindor, in the first Quidditch match of the previous year.
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> Fred and George's bitterness towards Cedric for having beaten the Gryffindor team, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Cedric would later offer Gryffindor the chance to replay the game because he thought it was unfair that he won due to the Dementor. The offer was declined, but certain members of the team had a grudge against Cedric for the next year. Harry would seek the aid of Remus Lupin and would ***learn*** the Patronus Charm, as a means of keeping the Dementors at bay.

***Amos Diggory*** (Cedric's father) was very proud at Cedric for having beaten Harry Potter in a Quidditch match, although Cedric insisted to his father that he had won on unreasonable terms.

## Behind the scenes

* The game was the second one arranged for Gryffindor and Hufflepuff that took place in 1993, though the one played earlier in the year (during Harry's second year) was cancelled due to the opening of the Chamber of Secrets.
* In *Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban* (film), ***Rionach O'Neal*** made a non-canonical appearance as one of the Gryffindor ***Chasers*** for this match.
	+ Also, Cedric fell off his broom after being struck by lightning, as a result, when Harry also fell after being attacked by Dementors, the Snitch was left uncaught and the match was most likely called off.

## Appearances

* *Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban* (film) (First Entire Appearance)

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## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 *Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban* (film)
2. ↑ Yes! It is me! by Marianne Chase on Twitter