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Chapter Nine- Quidditch trials

Rose cheered up considerably in the next few days and everyone was more cheerful. Although Lily didn't seem to notice herself, she had stopped calling James, 'Potter' and now called him James. Everyone else noticed but decided kindly, not to tease her about it.

Leila became Slytherins most wanted within the next two weeks and James and Sirius decided to make her a paper crown. Leila went along with it a now wore the crown to all the lessons they shared with the Slytherins.

On the Wednesday of the third week, James, the Quidditch captain, held trials.

James was seeker, Sirius was the first beater, the other beater graduated last year so they needed a new one. Rose and a sixth year girl called Natalie McCready were the current chasers, Alice used to be the other but she had also graduated last year and Hazel Matlock was the team keeper.

This left James needing a chaser and a beater. Leila was trialling for chaser.

Lily and Leila walked down to the pitch. Rose, Remus, James and Sirius were already there. James was organising the people trialling for beater, Rose and Remus were chatting in the stands and Sirius was flirting with a group of girls that had come to watch.

James finished talking to the beaters just as Lily and Leila arrived. Leila watched as Sirius looked casually over his shoulder, saw Leila and immediately came over, calling over his shoulder at the girls, one of whom was in the middle of telling a joke and was quite put out when Sirius left.

"Hey Sirius." Leila said, flashing him a Potter grin that made him smile.

James arrived.

"Hi Lily, hey cuz. You trialling?" he asked,

"Yup. Chaser." Leila answered, showing him her broomstick (Nimbus 1000).

"Cool, you were always good at family games," James grinned, "Hang on a sec, OI! LEAVE THOSE BLUDGERS IN THE BOX!"

James went running off, Leila rolled her eyes.

"Family games? We were the only players!" she scoffed.

"Then how do you play?" Sirius asked.

"Scoring against each other, first to catch the snitch, hit each other with bludgers, races." Leila reeled off, "Annoying thing was, James won almost everything!"

"Almost?" Lily questioned, smirking.

"Well I could always hit more bludgers at him, and he is a crap keeper!" Leila said, Sirius and Lily laughed.

"Who's a crap keeper?" Remus asked; he had just arrived with Rose.

"James." Lily answered, "By the way, where are Peter and Jess?"

"Oh. They're off doing 'charms homework'" Rose said, rolling her eyes.

"We don't have charms homework." Leila said,

"Exactly! We think they might be hiding something!" Remus said with a sly grin.

"Aw… they suit each other!" Lily giggled.

"OK! CHASERS OVER HERE!" James yelled,

"That's me." Leila said, moving across the pitch.

"Good luck!" Rose called.

"Yea! Go Leil!" Sirius yelled. James turned to glare at them.

"Team over here too!" he shouted. Sirius sighed and Rose giggled before they both left.

Remus and Lily ran up to the stands to watch.

The beater trials ran smoothly enough, the best was probably a boy in fifth year called Mathew Hannan. He was short but strong with excellent aim. He also worked well with Sirius and seemed to be a quick learner.

Then it was time for the chaser trials.

Leila passed the quaffle around with Natalie and Rose without ever dropping the ball and didn't miss a single shot against Hazel. She outflew everyone and dodged every bludger Sirius shot at her. It was obvious who the new chaser was. When James told everyone to take a break while he decided and discussed with the team.

Leila shot over to the stand where Lily and Remus were sitting.

"How'd I do?" She asked breathlessly.

"Meh!" Remus shrugged.

"Remus!" Lily elbowed him, "You were amazing Leil. You'll get in."

"You think so?"

"WE'VE DECIDED!" James bellowed. Lily and Remus grinned. Leila glided down to the team and toppled lightly onto the grass, landing next to Sirius.

"Ok, listen up!" James called, everyone turned to him. "Well to be honest, I think it's pretty obvious who the new team members are." He looked pointedly at Mathew Hannan, then Leila. Both of them beamed. The team beamed back at them.

"Err, yea so Mathew and Leila, welcome to the team. You can leave now." James waved to everyone and Leila grinned happily.

Sirius hugged her and a gaggle of lingering girls stalked off as they saw Leila hug back.

"You flew really well!" Sirius told her. Leila smiled,

"Thanks!" she said before hugging Rose aswell. Lily and Remus arrived.

"Well done Leil! I knew you could do it!" Lily said happily. Leila grinned wider.

She'd made the team!

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September was ending, the quidditch trials were three days ago and Jess had announced on Sunday that she was indeed, dating Peter.

The Tuesday morning dawned grey and cloudy. Leila and Lily led the way to the Great Hall, chatting merrily as they normally did in the morning. Jess stumbled along, her eyes bleary and Rose walked beside her, observing everything with her usual quiet happiness and amusement.

The Marauders arrived and Peter sat shyly next to Jess, giving her hand a squeeze. James plonked himself next to Leila and Sirius sat next to him. Remus was nowhere to be seen.

Leila frowned, she'd seen Remus leave the tower last night, and James, Sirius and Peter had all had early nights.

"Where's Remus?" she asked James, spreading jam on her toast.

"His mother's sick. He normally visits her often." James replied, not looking up.

"Poor Mrs Lupin" Lily sighed, having heard this story before and completely believing it. Rose looked down sadly, also believing the story.

Leila wasn't convinced; she knew when James was lying.

"When's he coming back?" she asked, James looked up again, facing Leila,

"Wednesday evening." He said promptly. Leila knew this was true. James never looked at her when he was lying, he would look at other people when he lied to them. But not Leila. Never Leila.

"Did he stay with his mum in the holidays?" Rose asked.

"No. She's living at St Mungo's." James replied, looking Rose in the face. Leila felt like laughing, but it would be inappropriate.

Later when they were all leaving, Leila leant over to James.

"I can tell when you're lying, cuz." She whispered, before walking off with Lily.

James watched her leave; suspiciously, he turned to tell Sirius to keep an eye on Leila in case she figured out Remus' secret, but saw that Sirius was already staring after her. James smirked.

"Padfoot? You there?" he asked. Sirius jumped and looked over at James guitily. "I was gonna ask you to keep an eye on Leila but I guess you're already there."

"What? No! I-" Sirius began. But James just grinned.

"Whatever Pads. Whatever."

A.N- Ok, all done… tell me what you think! Please tell me!

I might not actually write any quidditch matches… in fact, I don't think I will but the trials helped out my plot and will be essential later on…

Chapter 10- Finding Out! Coming soon!

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