Thanks to x8xdanix6x for the site, lol indeed, so Slughorn must be... like 1 hundred and something? Lol, I reckon she'll do just fine as an arsonist....
Unsigned. For Now, thanks for the insite... I hope this Chapter is less... Dramatic for you lol.
Thanks to my lovely reviewers so far!! * ariabby, Jeni27, x8xdanix6x and Unsigned. For Now
Quaffles, bats and rain…
After that little accidental arson 'tutoring lesson' I only bumped into him once-
"Can't tutor you for the next couple of weeks, really busy with school work," was what he said. He didn't even let me reply, he just shunted off, being all cold and pompous. After that, I didn't see Scorpius around at all. Not in the halls… not anywhere. Not that I was looking, of course.
McGonagall said that she couldn't find another tutor for me that might have the time now, especially with Quidditch season coming up.
So life was pretty simple- except for me failing Transiguration, and my brothers being total nutcases, my best friends unknown (to them) love triangle, and a slight obsession with a Slytherin.
"Lily?? LILY!!! Wake up!! We're-going-to-be-late!!!" A frantic voice was ordering me.
Whoever it was kept on hitting me with something fluffy and lumpy.
"Cut that out…" I said, blinking as at Amelia as she whacked me again with her pillow.
"Quidditch trials! In ten!!!" She hissed, pulling my blanket off me.
"Hey!" I shrieked; suddenly wide awake as the cold air of the morning stung my body. She gave me a look of desperation and threw something red onto my bare bed.
"Ten minutes, and I'm starving… Come on Lily!" She pleaded, throwing back my blanket and pulling back my curtains angrily.
Grunting at her shadow, I pulled on the robes and poked her ribs with my wand through the curtains. "Let's go… bossy…"
She laughed, shoving me back through the curtains, "It's on backwards sleepyhead… and I'll show you bossy..."
Looking down I realized the robes were backwards, the numbers were back to front, and were the wrong way around. Sighing sleepily I pulled them off again and shivered. It's so cold in the mornings!!
Finally done, we rushed through the Hall, finding spare seats by the Griffindor table. James and the rest were already there.
"Late much?" Rose asked as she watched Amelia butter her toast.
"I had a little trouble with the robes," I said, examining them to make sure it was correct. Amelia laughed.
"You, got… uhh…" Liam started, pointing at Amelia's chin, wiping it, she released it was egg.
"So, you trying out then?" Adrian asked, looking at my robes.
I nodded, spreading jam onto my toast.
"Of course, I wouldn't need to try out." James boasted, winking down at us. "I'm just too good."
"Oh shut up." Teddy said, chucking an apple at him. James caught it quickly, showing off his reflexes.
"Jealous Lupin?"
"Hahaha,"
"Let's go now," Fred said, finishing off the rest of his orange juice.
"Good luck guys!" Dominique called as Amelia and I stood up after him.
We would really need it.
So the only available positions were;
Chasers (2 spots) and Beaters (one spot). The Captain, Jonathon Woods, he's a sixth grader this year. I met his parents, Oliver and Katie at the Puddlemere game two years ago. They seemed friendly enough.
"Alright, now I want you all to split into the teams of whatever position you want! Now!"
Amelia hugged me before heading off to line with the possible Beaters and I nervously joined the group of Chaser wannabees. It was the hugest group- and everyone looked determined enough to kill. Oh god.
The Chasers tried out first. When I got my broom, I realized with relief that it wasn't as bad as James had told me so. In fact, it obeyed my every touch.
Jonathon was Keeper and he was going to block all our throws. We had ten throws each. The first boy fainted when he lifted 3 meters off the ground, and the girl after him gave up due to stress after getting all her 4 attempts blocked.
It slowly went on and on. Until my turn. Looking at the stands, I noticed James, Albus and the whole gang giving me thumbs ups and calling out "You can do it!". Gulping I lifted off the ground, heading towards Jonathon's sanctuary.
The first two he blocked, but I noticed that the seems to edge on whatever side he thinks I'll throw before I did, so feigning a left, I aimed for the right hoops and I scored.
James and Albus cheered loudly from the stands. After that, I used the strategy and let in six more goals, doing the best so far with a seven out of ten.
A girl after me threw the Quaffle so far and off, that it disappeared past the stands and into the Forest.
"Well now what?" I asked the boy next to me. He shrugged.
"Guess she won't make the team."
"Can someone get me another Quaffle?" called Jonathon from above, slightly impatient now.
I turned, but Amelia had beat me to it. Grabbing a quaffle from the kit, she hopped onto her borrowed broom and flew off, and I was surprised to see this, but as someone who never rode a broom before, she rode it smoothly and confidently.
When she reached Jonathon, he said something and she shook her head. I couldn't see very well, the sun was glinting into my eyes. He said something else and she shook her head again.
He than stared her down and she reluctantly flew away from him, holding the Quaffle still.
"What's going on?" they boy next to me asked.
Realising, "She's going to take a couple of shots- I don't think Jonathon had much hope in us…" I replied.
It was the truth though; I was the only one who scored more than three goals.
Watching her, I used my own borrowed broom as a shade. She flew away from Oliver, then pausing headed straight for him… and scored a goal! I cheered loudly, but a third year next to me; named Melanie Strait groaned and said, "Great, like we need anymore first years on our team."
Not that she was even on the team, she only scored two. We were all watching Amelia now, and she was great. Swift and fast, she scored eight out of ten. Cheering loudly again, I ran over to my best friend and tackled her.
"Amelia! You never said you were good at Chaser!" I screamed as I hugged her.
"I didn't know! I never rode a broom before!!" She hugged back, jumping ecstatically "I'm definitely not going to try out for Beater!"
"Great." Melanie hissed from behind us before storming out the Pitch.
We watched the Beater's next. Fred was out there, but he wasn't trying out. Jonathon would throw out the Bludger's and Fred would hit them, (he'd never miss, surprisingly) and the wannabee Beaters would have to try and hit back.
The grey clouds were rolling in, and soon after they had finished with their last try out, it stared to pour hardcore. Making a dash for the changing rooms, a sea of red robes washed through the pitch. I never realized how much people came to try outs.
"Okay, OKAY! People, quieten down please!" Jonathon called out over the chatter and moans about the horrible weather. Sure enough, I could hear thunder outside.
"Now, I've made my decisions up, no offence if you didn't make the team, but I did see some shoddy broom and hand eye co-ordination out there people!" Instantly everyone quietened down.
"Now as we all know, I'm Keeper, James Potter is Seeker, Rose Weasley is a Chaser and Fred Weasley Keeper. New Chasers are…. Lily Potter and Amelia Corner- they were standouts. New Beater is… Damien Webb!"
The sea of red ground and hissed as they pondered over why they didn't make the team, but me, Amelia and whoever Damien was- were very loud indeed.
"YAY!!!" We screamed, as me and Amelia rushed back towards the castle with the rest while rain was pouring down hard on us. Lights would appear and crack as the lightning grew stronger.
"Well I'm beat." She slumped onto the couch as we watched the rain pour in the dark midday of our Wednesday.
After we got back, and changed out of our soaking wet robes, we headed down the hall for lunch. Everyone was chattering loudly, but all we did was stuff our hungry faces. Griffindors from all directions came and congratulated us, making such rackets we couldn't even eat.
After finally evading them, we ran into the Common Room, which was thankfully empty, due to everyone being at lunch.
"Doesn't even look like three pm, does it?" I asked as we watched more lighting streak through the grey sky.
"Nope." She said happily, "It's nice of the teachers to let Griffindors have a day off for try outs ha?"
"Imagine those Slytherins doing Potions this morning when we're out the sun." I said, leaning against the couch.
"Hey Lily?" She asked.
"Mmm?"
"I think Adrian fancies you."
"..."
"Just a thought though…"
I faced her extremely worn out face. "Why, has he said something?"
"No… It's just; I see the way he glances at you. It's just one of those things… you know?"
"What, like Liam?" I raised an eyebrow at her, but she didn't answer, because right then was when everyone had come back from lunch.
"That's my sister!!" Albus called from the doorway as he saw me. Running over he hugged me tightly, "Heard you made the team!" Soon after, the rest were all over me and Amelia, commenting on how they always knew that we were so good at Quidditch, yeah right.
"This is the hardest essay ever!!" Hugo grunted as we worked on our homework in the Common Room. The fires kept us warm.
"It's not that hard, really- you just need to listen." Amelia said, as she finished her third parchment. I peeked at her work; it was neat and tidy, but unreadable.
"Who knew Muggles had machines to dry their hair?" Liam pondered as he worked on his Muggle Studies essay.
"Lucky, I chose the keyboard to do my essay, and I've got nothing." I said.
In Muggle Studies we had to do three parchments worth of information about a Muggle device/contraption of our choice.
Stupid keyboards, honestly, it's the most boring human contraption ever created!
It was half past ten before my essay looked respectable enough to hand in. By that time Amelia had re-read hers twice, Liam had to write his again because he mistook the hair dryer for hair straightener and Adrian had given up on the remote. "Who needs a device to change a TV?"
We just sat there afterwards, warming our feet by the fireplace. It has been one long week…
Screw the Author's Note.
Anyway, yay! Chapter 3! Hope you all enjoyed it.... If yes, review, if not review anyways, it's the building blocks to a good Chapter :P
Lol, so Jonathon is the second child of... Oliver and Katie Bell, (based on some of my favourite fanfics I've read of OliverXKatie)
And I looked it up, Cho Chang marries a Muggle, but I changed it so that she marries the git Michael Corner, and had Amelia, yadyada lol.
Oh, and if your wondering why there is barely any Scorpius in this Chapter at all, is because if he popped up in every Chapter and something dramatic happened, it would be a very twisted story that doesn't really tell us much.
So review, you know you want to, and if you don't- you know you should review anyway :)
Lovies, Kate xx
Sorry for late update lol, the Science and Trig tests I had this week kept me doing nothing but studying, but holidays are here!! Yay!
Oh, and read my new HP FanFiccie, its called The Domino Effect, based on the pairing ChoXDraco- lol just read it and tell me what you think :)
