Ben was too enthusiastic, but so was Arthur. Quidditch had never bailed him out before - perhaps the British National Team had, except when Art remembered 1883 and 1884 he remembered being tired of ruining his own life all the time after Azkaban. But maybe this time it would, because things were not that bad and no one was whispering about him yet and he did not have enough assets to lose. And if Ben was enthusiastic then Arthur could be, too, because maybe that meant he was right.

(And he wasn't sure that Desdemona would be in the stands, for the discussed reasons, and he already missed having her there. He missed playing Quidditch with her, missed flying with her, missed the way things had been a year ago, before Ben and Melody Crouch had even gotten married.)

So Arthur grinned. "Great," he said, "Great. I think it'll be good this year."

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