"So I saw the flier for quidditch tryouts."
"You sure you want to tryout? We take quidditch very seriously here. I run intense practices and we will win the quidditch cup."
"I'm a good keeper James. I'd bring a lot to your team."
"I won't stop you from coming out. Just know tryouts are tough and its rough playing quidditch as a girl. The guys will go harder on you to try and get you to quit."
"I'm a tough girl James. I was the only girl on my team at home."
"Girls don't usually play keeper Remy. You're going to get smacked around a lot."
"I know James, I've played before. I know it won't be easy, but I really want to try."
"I think she can do it," Remus said not even looking up from his book.
"I can help you out a bit if you want," Sirius offered.
This caused him and James to fight about the morality of offering quidditch assistance to one perspective member, but not the others. Sirius didn't care about if the whole thing was moral or not, but Remy declined his help anyway. She would feel better doing in on her own.
Remy spent the next day nervously awaiting tryouts. She ran over plays in here head and spent much of the evening polishing her broom. The girls tried to reassure her and they all came down to watch tryouts with her the next morning.
"We'll be here to cheer for you Remy. And we promise to yell at the boys if they're mean."
"Thanks Mary, you seem so fierce."
"We've got Lily and we all know that's scary."
Lily punch at Mary and she ran away with a squeak. They play fought the whole way down and anytime Lily turned to the girls they'd all run away and play terrified. They caused quite a scene when they made it to the pitch still running around and laughing.
"Ladies please take your seats. We are sure to put on quite a show for you," Sirius said with a wink.
Lily and Marlene simultaneously flipped him off and then high-fived. They took their seats and Remy went to stand with the other contenders. This seemed to shock some of the guys that were standing there. She heard a few rude jokes behind the older boys, but she ignored them.
James sent everyone to the sky for a few flying drills. He flew around and cut nearly half of the group quickly. Then he split the group up based on the positions they were trying out for. There were only five people trying out for keeper, most of the group went to go try for chaser. Sirius and James both took to the sky to watch the drills they had everyone doing. They kept making calls to cut the groups down.
Keeper came down to Remy and an arrogant looking fifth year. They went to the different goal posts and started blocking shots form the chaser contenders. Most of the chasers were not very good, but a few really stood out to Remy. She had to play pretty hard to block goals, but didn't let anything through. When they came back down to the ground Remy was panting and sweaty, but she was happy. Sirius couldn't help but smile because he was so proud of her.
"For the chaser spot I'm going to go with Mitchel."
The fourth year smiled proudly, but he didn't react. The kid had been really good and Remy agreed with the call.
"Keeper was a close call, but I'm going to have to give it to Banks."
Remy was not as well collected as Mitchel and she jumped up and down a bit before she calmed herself. The team laughed a little, but congratulated her.
"You surprised me. You actually are a decent keeper," the fifth year congratulated her.
"Good job love," Sirius said coming to pull her into a tight hug.
"You did it!" Marlene yelled running down the belchers and nearly knocking her over with the force of her hug.
Soon Alice, Mary and Lily were added to the mix and Remy was crushed between giggling excited girls. Lily was so pleased because of the great feminist step it was having more and more girls play quidditch, which Mary kept teasing her for. Once they all stepped away most of the others had cleared out.
"You really did to an amazing job Remy," James said as he finally let himself hug her.
Sirius and James spent the next few hours introducing Remy to the team. The pride coming off of both of them was immense. Remy liked her teammates immediately and couldn't wait to get started with practices.
"See now we have even more reason to throw the party," Sirius said as they finally broke apart for the night.