I've been thinking a lot about Rose and Seamus's back story lately. And so...this is one of the results. Just a little drabble of Seamus looking back on when he first met Rose.
He still remembered the first time he really noticed her. Winter of his second year. He hated her. That tiny annoying cousin of James'. He first paid attention to her at the impromptu tryout the Gryffindor team was forced to hold when the reserve chaser was caught in a rather compromising position with his full-time counterpart, leaving a vacant place on the team. And, being reserve players themselves, he and James had felt obliged to observe the tryouts. (Not that they were really accomplishing anything by being there...)
Why the girl even dared to stand on the pitch with experienced flyers almost twice hr age, he had no idea. According to James, she rarely, if ever, played at home because the older Weasleys always got the positions. But amazingly, the girl could fly. Really fly. And in the end, it was she, a poor pathetic first year, who ended up on the team. The first string of the house team; youngest to do so in almost a decade. The boys were astounded. And he, in particular, instantly despised her, because she had done something that he had yet to accomplish.
Nonetheless, she was James' cousin, and thus had to be tolerated.
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Originally posted October 2010.