Sometimes it's fun to build a side-story..this one wasn't too bad of an idea, not that I can claim much of the inspiration:
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She ran across the empty quidditch field, her broom in her left hand. About four feet from the ground t the goal posts, she leapt from the ground to land lightly on the toes of her leather boots, right foot in front of the left upon teh broom's polished handle bringing the broom down parallel to the ground straight ahead and to a 45 degree angle from her running trajectory. She gripped the end of the handle tightly through her dragon-hide leather gloves and pulled the speeding broom up into a vertical climb rising swiftly hundreds of feet into the air. As she rose even higher she sent her broom and herself into a slow spin by gracefully swinging her legs free from their grip so that she held on only with her hands, and her legs spun elegantly outwards from her body forming a well-held V-shape as she clutched the broom to her chest, her arms wrapped lengthwise along its handle, her right, raised above her head, her left, along the smooth wood towards her knees.
Then, wrapping her left leg around the broom locking her foot around it just above the bristles she turned so that she now flew at a diagonal towards the ground, still spinning, and released her right hand's grip on it, pushing her body away from the broom with her left hand so that only her left hand and her left leg up to the thigh were in contact with the handle. She leaned her head back, arching her back smoothly and raising her right arm to curve over her head much like muggle ballerinas she had seen, and closed her eyes.
Draco was watching her from the quidditch team practice entrance as she spiraled slowly towards the ground, her deep mahogany red hair floating gently around her black clad figure. He had no idea what she was doing, but it was beautiful, they weren't quidditch moves perse, but that part of his brain was documenting them as they could easily be applied as such. Moves like these, tweaked a bit of course, just might give him an advantage over Potter in the next house cup game. That thought shook him out of his daze in time to see her flipping into a handstand on her broom. Doing so pulled it out of her spinning drive the instant before she would have hit the ground.
She bent her arms, balancing her body upside down and pushed up. Her momentum pulled her up into a forward flip into the air taking her broom with her still gripped in her right hand. Spinning it slightly as she landed, she ended in a tiger crouch on the ground, her left hand, supporting her weight, balanced on her toes, her broom held diagonally behind her back by her right hand, the black bristles appearing from behind her left shoulder. After remaining kneeling for a moment she stood, summoned a dark red cloak to her, threw it around her shoulders covering her black dragonhide bodysuit and strode towards the stands. Hopping onto her broom once more she soared lazily up and out of the field.
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