Disclaimer: Own very little characters just Hestia, Nero etc
Authors Note:
Hi Readers
Sorry this is really late but I've had a lot of stuff to do school wise at the moment. so thank you for being patient. New chapters up soon.
Six Months later.
Even since before Christmas things weren't right at Hogwarts. The petrification's, the writing on the wall. Hestia knew there was dark magic around. It was now late July and there had been so many petrification's. First, Mrs Norris that stupid cat and then poor Colin Creevy- That was devastating for Hestia and Ginny- then Nearly Headless Nick and Justin Finch-Fletchley.
Hestia didn't see the use of sitting around waiting for a miracle- Professor Sprout was trying to grow the Mandrakes as quickly as she could for Madame Pomfrey so she decided she'd set to work with Luna. After their first visit to the gargoyle months ago they'd decide to brew a rare potion that if brewed correctly could reveal exactly what was up with Professor Snape. The girls decided they would brew it in moaning Myrtles bathroom because nobody ever went in there with Myrtle in there all the time.
"Alright Luna let's see what we need." Hestia said sitting around the cauldron that they'd placed in the stall furthest from the door. She reached into her satchel and pulled out her Dad's old journal. "Let's see…Arda Possession Reversal Potion… Part one- will approximately take 1 year to brew. Ok….One jar of toad eyes, two bottles of unicorn blood, and two pieces of Oak wood. Using Mortar crush into paste and place in cauldron with a cup of pumpkin juice. Stir 12 times clockwise and heat on low for 7 hours checking and stirring twice." As Hestia read Luna added the ingredients.
"Ok so what exactly will this potion do again?" Luna asked on her 10th stir of the potion.
"It's like the opposite of a polyjuice potion. It can undo any spell, potion or if a person's being possessed and it changes them back into themselves. That's what my dad's book says anyway." Hestia replied. She looked at her watch. "Ok so we have to come back in say 3 hours to stir it again so that's… 5 o'clock this evening and then at 9 tonight. I'll come back at 9 if you could come back at 5. I've got quidditch till 8:30 and everybody's doing something for Harry's birthday."
"Ok. Have fun at quidditch." Luna said getting up and pushing everything as far into the stall as possible. "Goodbye Myrtle." She said looking up at the ghost who had been watching them.
"Alright. Hello everybody. I'm Hestia… I mean duh you all know that. Ummm. Oliver Wood and I decided that now would be as good as time as ever to form the First Years Quidditch teams. It won't just be for our first year though. These will kind of be sub teams for the regular house quidditch. Madame Hooch has kindly let us use the flying classes' brooms until next year when we can have our own." Hestia stood in front of her whole year- Gryffindor's, Hufflepuffs, Slytherins and Ravenclaws. "With everything going on we thought it might do us some good to mix and get to know each other." Wood stood next to her beaming.
"Anybody who would like to join please write your name, house and preferred position down. We'll tell you when we're holding tryouts, but they'll be soon. We would like to say at this point that it will be until your all a little more experienced a modified version on Quidditch- so not as many bludgers and a slower snitch things like that. You will have members of the house teams and Madame Hooch coaching." Wood said a little too excitedly.
Members of all four houses got up and walked towards the sheet of parchment. "Hey Hes, how many kids in your year?" Wood whispered to her.
"Um I dunno about 55 or so I think." Hestia replied.
Wood whistled. "That's bigger than usual. It usually sits around 40 I think. That means you'll have a couple of teams." Wood said happily as more students put their names on the sheet of parchment and left the pitch heading back towards the castle.
"Don't get excited Wood- there's only a quarter or so on here enough for two teams with a couple subs. Wow, there's a lot of Gryffindor boys. Lots of Hufflepuffs girls and some Slytherins." Hestia replied scanning the pages.
"How many from Ravenclaw?" Wood asked, eyebrow raised, knowing that they were usually responsible for very good Quidditch teams.
"Ummm, only Luna and someone called James Chase." Hestia replied, looking sceptical, "If this works we should do it for all of the years- have sub teams you know?"
"Hmmm. Yeah brilliant idea. Come up to the change rooms when your done up here. I want to go through some stuff for next week's game against Ravenclaw." Wood said as he packed away the parchment and headed back towards Madame Hooch's office to give it to her to work out the tryout times. Ginny, Luna and two other students who Hestia hadn't met before stood waiting for her.
"Great Job Hestia." Luna said. She leaned over and whispered in her ear "potions ready to be stirred when you are."
Ginny reached over and hugged her cousin. "Yeah great work. This is Amy she's a Hufflepuff student in our year and this is Maxine, from the Slytherin house. Despite what Fred and George say Slytherin isn't so bad."
"Pleasure to meet you both." Hestia said extending her hand to each girl. "We must have all the boys in our house, because there are like barely any in any other house. Either that or they just don't like Quidditch."
Maxine looked anxiously behind her as if someone was watching her. "Well it was nice meeting you Hestia. It's really cool what your doing-"
"Let me guess you reckon your mates will think your stupid or something for talking to a couple of 'non-Slytherin' like us?" Hestia said.
"Well yeah…. And my dad wants me to kind of hang with the Malfoys and that Parkinson girl." Maxine replied shyly "But I really hope I get in to your team or any team really." With that she walked back towards the castle and her Slytherin friends.
Amy the Hufflepuff was obviously very shy she whispered something in Luna's ear and began playing with her robe sleeve.
"Amy says it was a pleasure to meet you all but she also must depart- she promised to help Professor Sprout with some Herbology stuff and really must be going." Luna said on her behalf. "I too must go- Owls to send back to my father about this month's issue of the Quibbler."
"See you Luna, nice meeting you Amy." Hestia called after them. She turned and walked to the changing rooms. Ginny stood perfectly still in the same spot. "Come on Ginny. You can come too I'm sure Wood wouldn't mind."
"I've um got to go… See Professor McGonagall, there's something I need to tell her." Ginny replied stiffly. She ran off back towards the castle.
Hestia wasn't even sure why she needed to go to the meeting. She didn't really need to be there. Harry was fit enough to play and Hes couldn't play any other position other than seeker so halfway through she snuck away to go stir her potion and catch up on some potions homework.
As she stirred the potion she heard the bathroom door swing open. She peeped her head out slightly to check who it was and saw Ginny holding her diary. Her face white with terror in an almost trance like state. Hestia creeped up behind her. "Throw the book, throw it away." She whispered in her cousin's ear in elvish.
Ginny jumped startled and the book went flying behind her landing in the toilet nearby. She ran from the bathroom a look of joy on her face. Behind Hestia the ghost of Myrtle Warren began crying and wailing. Hestia packed up her satchel and pushed her cauldron behind the toilet where it was out of sight and headed back to the Common room.
She turned the corridor and was half way to the Fat Lady portrait when she heard moaning and grumbling. She turned to see a couple of students with very wet feet clearly having just walked past the bathroom. "Bugger the bathroom flooded" Hestia muttered. She had to go move her Cauldron in case Filch saw it.
She headed back towards the bathroom when she heard something moving. She stopped her hear towards the wall. Then a hiss. She jumped back, right into the twins. "Why so jumpy Hes," Fred asked her.
"Boys I need your help." Hestia said grabbing them by the wrist. "I need your help to hide this." She pointed to the cauldron. The boys looked at each other and smiled.
"Well Hestia dear cousin," George said "Where do you want it hidden?"
"Anywhere." Hestia replied. Fred whispered something in George's ear and reached for something in his pocket.
"Here take this until you find somewhere to hide it." Fred said handing her a piece of blank parchment.
"It's blank. Is this some kind of joke?" Hestia said getting annoyed.
"No no look. Say the woods I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good and tap it with your wand. It's bewitched. See?" George said giving a demonstration. "And to make it go blank say mischief managed." He handed it too Hestia. "Take good care of it though and we'll need it back soon."
"Thanks so much guys." Hestia exclaimed taking it and opening it. She looked at the routes and found where she was standing and a passage nearby. "So nobody will find it…" Hestia looked up and the boys were gone.
Hestia wandered the corridors looking for the passageway. Eventually she found it opened it and placed her cauldron in it before racing back to her dorm.
It was the morning of the quidditch match and also the day training would begin for the First year's game. A quarter or so of Hestias year were gathered on the pitch waiting for Madame Hooch to start tryouts and to start sorting them into teams.
"Alright there are around 16 of you here that's 2 teams plus 1 sub per team. We will begin with seeker trials." Madame Hooch said. "Hestia Weasley, James Chase and…. Oh that's it for seekers, right. On my whistle get off the ground and try and catch this as fast as you can." Madame Hooch held up a golf ball.
She blew her whistle and hurled two Golf balls in the air. Hestia raced out grabbing the first one with James grabbing the second straight after.
Madame Hooch signalled for them to come back in and called up the Chasers. Next up were the Keepers, then finally the Beaters. After the tryouts Madame Hooch called out their teams:
"Team Number 1- We will think of a better name later
Seeker: Hestia Weasley
Chasers: Ginny Weasley, Maxine Drakle and Luna Lovegood,
Keeper: Lillian Hipplan
Beaters: Amy Dixon, John Quillman
Sub: Rachel Spark
Team 2
Seeker: James Chase
Chasers: Josie Tippet, Daisy Took and Emile Pincer
Keeper: Alix Killian
Beaters: Elizabeth Gardener and Christopher Schnilter
Sub: Nero Malfoy"
"What!" Nero stood up and marched over to Madame Hooch. "I'm a sub?" Madame Hooch tried to silence him "I'm better than any of these filthy players. I should be Keeper!"
"SILENCE! Mr Malfoy would you like to discuss this in my office over a detention because that's where you're heading." Madame Hooch yelled pointing back towards the castle. "The rest of you listen to Wood and the other Captains."
"Alright let's see how you play shall we?" Wood exclaimed.
Hestia stood next to Luna in the crowded Quidditch stands. According to Ron somebody had broken into the boy's dorm the night before and left an awful mess. Everybody waited anxiously in the stands. Hestia looked at her watch, the game was supposed to have started 15 minutes ago. Luna pointed to the pitch where professor McGonagall was heading towards the Change rooms.
"Excuse me everybody, ummm really sorry but uh Quidditch has been cancelled and we've been asked to report back to our common rooms." Lee Jordan's voice came from the speakers. There were groans from the crowd followed by the sound of shuffling as everybody went to back to the castle.
Luna grabbed Hestia by the sleeve "Where's Ginny? What do you thinks happened?" She asked.
"I don't know Luna I don't know." Hestia replied scanning the crowd for anybody she knew. She spotted Ron "HEY where's Ginny?" she called out.
"Bloody hell no clue. She said she didn't feel well but I haven't seen her since breakfast. She was holding her diary when I saw her though." Ron replied slowing down to catch his cousin.
'The diary' thought Hestia 'She threw it in the toilet though. No she wouldn't have stolen it back from Harry after he found it would she?' She reached the common room and flopped onto a chair and picked up one of her dads journals. She had to find what was in that diary and what was it doing to Ginny.
