I Can Play Quidditch
A/N: Well, this is exciting! This is my first story (finally!) so I hope you enjoy it. This story is dedicated to my good friends Lia, Yasmin, Maddy, Julia and Francie. I'm sorry if my punctuation or grammar isn't too good... This might be my only author's note because I personally hate having to read an author's note halfway through a story but, that might just be me. Hopefully, if my plan works, I'll only write an author note to thank readers/reviewers ;) Getting reviews would mean a lot to me (especially since this is my first story) and criticism would also help but please be nice :) Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or anything Harry Potter related.
Chapter 1: Prologue
"WAIT! WAIT!" Lia screamed at the bus but it kept moving, albeit at a very slow pace. "And the next bus doesn't arrive until another half hour, my mum's going to kill me, i'm so late!" She groaned. Lia stopped at the bus stop and tried to catch her breath. "Why me? This would only happen to me... Stupid Mr Figella..." Now, you're probably asking why she is cursing at her teacher and was so late to catch her bus. Well, just a few minutes previously Lia had been seen talking to her Maths teacher about her latest maths measurement test. But Mr Figella is known for getting off topic easily and before Lia knew it, he was talking about tortoises. "I mean, who even talks about tortoises? Yes, I do know that they're animals and I do know that they can swim in water..." She mumbled to herself. A passerby noticed her speaking to herself and quickly crossed the road to get to the other sidewalk.
After 20 minutes of grumbling to herself, the 754 bus approached the stop. "Finally!" Lia exclaimed. She got on the bus and swiped her met card. She looked for a spare seat but the only free seat was next to a boy with black hair and glasses. She carefully approached him and asked, "is it alright if I sit here?" The boy looked up startled and quickly nodded yes.
She sat down and dumped her bag on the floor. She got out her iPod and started playing it. After a while, she started bobbing her head along with the music and tapping her fingers against her knee. She took one earphone out and gestured it towards to boy. The boy looked at it weirdly and then looked out the window pretending he'd never seen it. Lia turned off her iPod and put it back into her bag. On impulse, she said, "hi! My name is Lia." And she stuck out her hand to shake.
"Umm, I'm Harry." Harry grabbed her hand and quickly shook it and let it go just as quickly.
"Soooo, how are you?" Lia asked awkwardly.
"Umm, I'm fine, thanks." Harry replied, just as awkwardly.
"Oh yeah, me too. Did you see the footy game on the weekend? Richmond totally thrashed Collingwood. 254 to 57 points, can you believe it?"
"Umm, I don't really, er, watch the footy. I follow another sport."
"Oh really, what sport?"
"Umm, well, it's from another country..."
"Really? What's it called?"
"Umm, you wouldn't know it even if I told you..." Harry said mysteriously.
"Oh really? I wouldn't, would I? So, is it called Quidditch by any chance?" Lia said with one eyebrow raised.
