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Chapter 4: First days and Quidditch

The next morning Sirius woke up at Zach's prodding.

''Wake up, Potter, or you're going to be late on your first day. And you're a Prefects, you're supposed to set an example'' said Zach in a stern voice. The other boys were chuckling silently as Sirius sat up, looking disheveled and very tired.

''Shove off, Lupin'' he said, yawning widely. Zach just shrugged and continued throwing his books in his bag. Sirius groggily stood up and walked to the bathroom. After refreshing himself and putting some clothes on he grabbed his bag, put some books in it and went downstairs to find his friends waiting for him.

''What took you so long?'' asked an annoyed looking Mark. Sirius glanced at the clock, but it wasn't even that late yet. He raised an eyebrow at Mark, but his friend had already left.

''What's up with him?'' he asked his other friends. The others shrugged and then looked up as the girls walked down their respective stairs. They smiled down at the boys and joined them for breakfast. Zoe and Sirius were a bit awkward towards each other as they sat down on opposite sites of the table. Morgan, Jessie and Mary were knowingly smiling at Sirius, but the boys looked at their friends in surprise. Zach seemed to get the hang of what was going on quite quickly and smiled slightly at Sirius. This caused Mark's confused look to worsen and both Sirius, Zach and the girls started laughing at Mark and Kyle, who still didn't get it. Morgan decided to explain.

''Sirius and Zoe eh…well, they shared an eh…intimate moment. And Zoe's going to kill me for telling you that.'' She then jumped up and started running out of the Great Hall with Zoe hot on her heels. Sirius just turned red and seemed to find his bacon very interesting. Zach patted his friend on his back and then just continued eating. Mark still looked confused but Kyle seemed to get it. Sirius was very grateful for Kyle not to tease him about it. He really wasn't in the mood. The boys and remaining girls looked up as Sirius' dad walked by and passed out the schedules.

''Why're you all so quiet?'' he asked in an amused voice. Sirius looked up at his father with an innocent face.

''Nothing, da-Professor. Nothing at all.'' Harry just shrugged and continued passing out the schedules. After five minutes Zoe and Morgan returned from running away, both panting but smiling.

''So, you didn't kill each other?'' asked Sirius with a smirk. Zoe cast him a look that silenced him and Morgan shook her head. Then it was time for their lessons to begin.

Sirius first hour was Double Potions with the Slytherins, and so were Zach, Jessie and Zoe's. They said good-bye to the others and went down to the dungeons. Sirius didn't exactly look forward to this lesson. For starters it was with the Slytherins, he was very good at Potions (something he didn't like and wasn't proud of at all) and the teacher seemed to hate him for that fact. He sighed as they were let in and he sat down next to Zach.

''Let's just hope it's not as bad as usual'' said Zach, sensing and sharing his friend's feelings about this lesson. Sirius sighed dramatically as the teacher entered the classroom. She had long, pitch black, straight hair, which curled slightly at the end. Her grey eyes were emotionless as always and she had a grim look around her. Her mouth was tight and she looked very strict. She was wearing a long, dark green cloak with the Slytherin emblem on it.

Professor Chador was the Slytherin Head and the Potions teacher. She shot Sirius an evil look, but didn't say anything about his behaviour. She silently walked down to her desk and then turned to the class. Everyone went quiet at once; accept for Sirius, who kept talking. She coughed loudly and he looked up innocently.

''Would Mr. Potter please honour us with his attention too'' she said in her harsh voice. Sirius just nodded grumpily and then turned around again to talk to Zoe and Jessie. Chador ignored him and started the lesson.

''Today you will be making the Memory Potion. This will enable a person to remember certain facts that are to be learned shortly after the person has taken the potion. You will need to check your book for the ingredients. You may begin.'' She then turned around and slammed the door to her office shut. The students looked at each other and hesitantly started collecting the ingredients.

''…and feathers of some sort of bird'' finished Sirius. He looked up at Zach to see the boy standing with his hands full of ingredients. He grinned slightly before walking over and helping him. They added the ingredients and after about an hour and a half they were almost done.

''Now stir counter clockwise for fifteen minutes and then it's supposed to turn a gold like colour.'' Sirius did as Zach told him and waited impatiently for the fifteen minutes to be over. When it was finally ready, he looked at the potion. He was satisfied to see it had exactly the right colour. Grinning, he sat down next to Zach, who was also smiling slightly. They were both pretty sweaty as they had been sitting around the cauldron fire for about two hours. Zach was impatiently waving his hand in his face and his curly brown hair was sticking to his face. He looked really annoyed at this. Sirius black hair was stuck to his face as well and he tried blowing it out, but it didn't really work. He undid his tie and opened the top button of his shirt. He then stood up and went to check the girls' potion. He gently put a hand on Zoe shoulder and peered over it into their cauldron. It also had the right colour, but just a bit darker than the boys'. Zoe smiled at Sirius and Jessie looked up as Zach also made his way over.

''How's it going?'' asked Zach, grumbling as his hair fell back in his eyes. He sighed, concentrated and his hair was a couple of inches shorter and straight. He smiled and then leaned over to peek in their cauldron as Sirius had done a minute before.

Seeing Potter and Lupin weren't working on their potion anymore, Professor Chador quickly made her way over.

''Would you two gentlemen please return to your own cauldron'' she asked, clearly annoyed at them being the first ready.

''Why? We're done aren't we? Why should we still watch it? Just as long as no one messes with it it'll still be perfect when we hand it in'' said Sirius cockily, raising an eyebrow at his teacher.

''Five points from Gryffindor for being rude, Mr. Potter. Now return to your table.'' And with that she stalked of again. Sirius glared at her retreating back and was going to retort, but Zach pulled him with him. Sirius grumbled.

''Why do you have to be so reasonable, Lupin? Can't I just hex her? Just once?'' he asked, using his puppy-dog eyes at Zach. The brown-haired boy just sighed, and shook his head.

''Not in this lifetime, Potter'' he answered as he started reading in a book he had pulled from his bag. Sirius just sighed and slumped down on his chair. It seemed to take ages until Chador told them to bring a sample of their potion forwards and Sirius reluctantly got up and poured some of the solution in the there for designed cups. He then walked forward, planted his cup on the desk and strolled back down to his table. He grinned happily as the class finally ended and he skipped out of the classroom. Zach looked at his friend in surprise. Sirius never skipped. Skipping wasn't Sirius. Skipping wasn't cool. Skipping was girly. Sirius quickly stopped skipping. They then walked to the next class in a normal way.

After a rather tiring day of classes it was finally afternoon. Luckily, none of the teachers had given them homework. Sirius sighed loudly as he slumped down on the couch in the common room. He was just about to grab some candy from his bag when two sixth year Gryffindor boys approached him. One had straight, blond hair that fell slightly in his dark brown eyes. He was tall and very good-looking. He was also the Quidditch Captain of this year; Jordan Quigley. He was the son of Cameron Quigley, who used to play for the Irish National Quidditch Team. The other was his sidekick; Sean Moran. His father had been on that team as well. He had curly auburn hair and startling blue eyes. He was also pretty tall, though not as tall as Jordan and was reasonable good-looking as well. He was a Beater on the Quidditch team along with Fabian Weasley. Sirius was also on the team, as a Chaser. He had been on the team for two years now; this was going to be his third year. James had been the Seeker for quite some time, but this year they needed a new one. Last year's seeker had been Lucy Thomas, but she had graduated.

''Hey there, Potter. Have a good first day?'' said Jordan in his strong Irish accent. He sat down in the armchair next to Sirius as Sean took of to talk to Mark, who was on the Quidditch team as the Keeper. Sirius grinned slightly at his captain.

''Yeah, it was okay. If you don't count Potions that is.'' Jordan smiled slightly at that. He then turned serious again.

''Well, I just wanted to tell you that the Quidditch try-outs are tomorrow evening at seven. The entire team will need to be there, so please, stay out of detention. Don't do what you did last year.'' Sirius chuckled at being remembered of last year. He remembered pretty clearly what had happened then…

''All right! Let's do it!'' said an exited, 14-year-old Sirius Potter. His eyes were gleaming with mischief as he walked down the corridors towards the Transfiguration classroom. He muttered a spell and the door unlocked itself. Grinning he slipped in, immediately followed by an also grinning Mark. From under his cloak Sirius grabbed a key. He showed it to Mark who started laughing slightly. Sirius silenced him and they quietly walked over to the closet on his left. He knew what the Professor stored there. Grinning, he unlocked the door and walked in the closet. He muttered a few spells and a big cage came flying towards him. Inside were at least a dozen of snoozing Cornish Pixies. He carefully placed the cage on a table in the middle of the classroom. Mark was checking the corridor and would walk in every now and then to check on Sirius. Sirius was trying to unlock the cage, but it wasn't really working. He had to be really careful not to wake the pixies, or their cover would be blown. Finally he managed to unlock the cage. He sighed softly and put the key back in his pocket. He gave Mark the thumbs up. Mark grinned at him and began pulling buckets in the classroom. The buckets were filled with sweets, the thing pixies liked very much. Sirius muttered a spell and the buckets were sent hovering above the entrance. He checked if the spell had worked and smiled at Mark. The boys had to try real hard to stop themselves from laughing. As quietly as they could they found their way back to the common room. They entered and quickly sneaked up the stairs. They climbed into their beds and wished the other goodnight, both showing big smiles.

The next morning they went to breakfast shooting each other glances all the time and grinning. The others quickly saw through their innocence act and asked what prank they were pulling. They wouldn't budge and kept their mouths shut, smiling wider as the classes began. They walked to the classroom and insisted they took another route they normally took. The others heard screaming and figured that was where there were going. Sirius and Mark were now running towards the Transfiguration classroom. There they found complete chaos. Apparently the first class of today was a couple of second years Hufflepufs and Slytherins. They were all screaming loudly and tried pulling the blue creatures of them. Sirius and Mark were laughing their heads of and the others joined as soon as they saw what was going on. Unfortunately for them, Mark's mother, Hermione was the teacher and she figured out rather quickly who where behind all of this. And they got a detention. They were to report to her office that night. The night of the Quidditch try-outs…

''I'll try to stay out of trouble'' said Sirius, still smiling at the memory of that prank. He heard Mark say the same to Sean and they both started laughing.

Later that evening they all went downstairs for dinner and after that they went to bed early. Mark and Sirius were exited about the try-outs and they wondered who would be their new teammates. They fell asleep pretty fast and before they knew it was morning again.

The day went by fast and the boys were soon getting ready for the try-outs. Both weren't in the mood to wear their uniforms so they each pulled on jeans and a simple T-shirt. Mark a gold coloured one and Sirius a red one. They thought that if they wouldn't wear their uniforms they could at least wear something in the right colour. They grabbed their brooms, but instead of walking down they just opened the window and flew out. A couple of minutes later they landed at the Quidditch pitch. Jordan and Sean were already there. Jordan hadn't brought his broom, as he wasn't allowed to play. He had been pretty badly injured a while ago in a Deatheater attack and wasn't allowed to play for the whole year. Luckily Headmistress McGonagall had found it fitting to make him captain, even if he couldn't play. A couple of minutes later Fabian and Gideon showed up as well. Gid wasn't on the team, but Fay was one of the Beaters.

''Well, I see you all managed to keep yourself from getting detention. Thanks'' said Jordan, grinning slightly at his team.

''The people who want to try-out should be here shortly. Just fly some laps or something.'' Mark mounted his broom and took of towards the posts and Sirius sped after him with the Quaffle in his hands. Fay gave Gid a Beaters bat and they started slamming a Bludger to each other. Sean shrugged and mounted his broom to join Sirius. After they flew around about a half an hour they saw people slowly coming towards the pitch. Sirius flew down and went to check out the people trying out. To his surprise he saw Mark's 13-year-old sister, Emma among the people trying out for Chaser. He walked towards her and greeted her happily.

''What do we have here? Is little Emma trying out for Chaser? Why didn't you tell me?'' he asked in a casual tone. Emma smiled slightly at her cousin and sat down on one of the benches.

''Well, you'd probably tease me about it and I wasn't in the mood for that. It's not that I'm really good at this or something, I'm just trying out'' she said softly, looking at her shoes. Sirius putted an arm around her shoulder and ruffled her hair slightly.

''Ow, come on Em, you know you're good. It runs in the family, every Weasley plays Quidditch and is good at it. You just wait. You might even make the team, cousin of mine'' he said good-naturedly. She smiled slightly at his and then stood up, as it was the Chasers try-outs turn. Jordan directed them into the middle of the field and split them in pairs of two.

''Each pair of you will pair up with either Sirius over there'' he pointed at Sirius who was standing on the left side of the field, ''or with Sean over there,'' now he pointed to Sean, who was standing on the right side of the field, ''Mark will be Keeping at Sirius side and we need Gideon to be the Keeper at Sean's side. All right, you two start over there at Sirius and you two start at Sean's.'' He pointed to two pairs and sent them of. Sirius was quickly joined by a third year girl with curly blond hair and hazel eyes and a sturdy looking fourth year boy with dark blond hair. They introduced themselves as Alice Tran and Tommy Jonesy and Sirius introduced himself as well.

''Okay, you know the drill. We'll just play and you guys have to try to score. Let's fly.'' He pushed of and went soaring in the air. The ball held firmly in his hand he sped of away from the posts. The two followed him, though not nearly as quickly as him. He nodded at them and flew towards the posts. Alice managed to keep up with him, but Tommy soon trailed behind. Sirius threw the ball at Alice who managed to catch it and she quickly sped of towards the goalposts, Sirius right by her side. She faked throwing the ball and instead threw it to Sirius, who dodged Mark and threw it back to her. She quickly scanned the posts and threw it in the one the furthest away from Mark. Mark still managed to get it though. Sirius whooped and flew over to shake his hand. Tommy was already on the floor looking grumpy. Alice went to sit down sadly and another pair was sent towards Sirius. He looked up to see Emma staring at him. She was together with a very insecure looking second year girl with short, brown hair by the name of Jessica. He smiled slightly at them and took of again. Emma was right behind him and, surprisingly, so was the second year girl. He threw the girl at Jessica, who caught it easily and quickly threw it to Emma, who caught it as well. They kept throwing the ball around and then Jessica suddenly leapt forward and threw the ball at the middle post with a lot of speed. Mark lunged at it, but missed. Sirius just hung there, hovering in the air, looking at the small and fragile looking girl who had thrown the ball with such speed. Emma and Jessica didn't even notice and kept playing. Emma saw her chance and threw the ball at the post the most to the right. She scored as well. Sirius just hovered there watching as Emma and Jessica kept scoring. He then heard Jordan's whistle and he went down, to discover that they were already done. Apparently there weren't as many people trying out for Chaser. He walked over to Jordan as Sean did the same. Sean was slowly shaking his head.

''Well? Which one do you think should get on the team?'' Sean shrugged and sighed.

''Eh…mine weren't exactly good…'' he said lamely. He then began explaining that two out of four didn't even catch the Quaffle when he threw it and they all couldn't throw. Jordan shook his head and turned to Sirius hopefully. Sirius smiled at him.

''I think I found us two very good Chasers. Emma Weasley and Jessica Gibson.'' Jordan smiled relieved and asked about the other candidates. Sirius just said they did reasonable but that Emma and Jessica were defiantly the best. Jordan nodded in approval and then called the reserve Beater try-outs together. A fourth year boy by the name of Ruben Mallory won the try-outs and was now happily chatting with Gideon and Fabian. Then it was time for the Seeker try-out. There were a lot of people trying out for that certain spot and eventually it became a neck-a-neck race between a fifth year girl and a third year boy. Eventually the boy, Ethan Horal won. So after about two and half hours they finally had their Quidditch team. Now all they had to do is practise. Practise a lot…

Seeker: Ethan Horal

Keeper: Mark Weasley

Chasers: Sirius Potter, Emma Weasley, Jessica Gibson

Beaters: Fabian Weasley, Sean Moran, Ruben Mallory (reserve)

Captain: Jordan Quigley