Albus and Lily were currently playing wizard's chess.
"Pawn to E5." Lily said.
One of the white pawns moved.
Albus chuckled and said "Knight to E5."
His knight immediately went over to that spot and knocked Lily's pawn down.
Lily glared at her brother and said "King to G7."
Immediately, her king took Albus's knight.
"Knight to A6." Albus said, since his sister was almost across the board and she beat him at wizard's chess, she'd definitely tell James and he'd never hear the end of it then.
Lily just grinned, since Albus has left his king and queen undefended.
"Knight to H6." Lily said and her knight immediately took out Albus's queen.
"No." Albus said.
"Your move big brother." Lily said.
Albus tried to find a way to win, but he couldn't. He had let his earlier victories go to his head and had left his king defenseless, whereas Lily had sent her pawns out first to distract him and cost him his men before sending out her better players and now she had his king boxed in, while both her king and queen were well defended by a few pawns, rooks and bishops.
"Rook to B7." Albus said.
Lily just grinned as she said "Knight to H5. Checkmate."
And with that, Lily's knight took out Albus's king, winning her the game.
"I win. You lose." Lily said with a smug grin.
"Lily, you better not say anything about this to James." Albus said.
"No promises. Of course, if I were to get a little something in return for keeping this secret, maybe I'd be more interested in keeping it." Lily said, since James had taught her the art of blackmailing when she was 5 and her Uncle George had been proud ever since.
"What do you want?" Albus asked.
"10 galleons and you do my chores for the week." Lily said.
"Done." Albus said, pulling the coins out of his pocket and handing them to his sister.
"Pleasure doing business with you." Lily said.
"You are an evil little girl." Albus said.
"Thank you." Lily said with a grin.
Albus rolled his eyes as their mum called them down for dinner.
After dinner, Lily was currently flying around the quidditch pitch, trying to overcome her fear of being hit by the bludger when suddenly it smacked her in the face.
"Mummy!" Lily shouted, cradling her nose as she landed.
"What happened Lily?" Ginny asked as she came running out to see her daughter with a bloody face.
"Oh baby, come here. Mummy's got you." Ginny said, taking the 7 year old girl into her arms.
"The bludger hit me." Lily said.
"That's what bludgers are supposed to do. You need to get over your fear of getting hit by one if you ever want to play beater." Ginny said as she healed her daughter's broken nose with her wand.
"But how? Every time I try, I get too scared and wind up chickening out." Lily said.
"I'll see if your Uncle George can come over tomorrow and help you get over this fear." Her mum said.
Lily nodded.
The next day, Ginny was waiting by the fireplace for her brother, sister-in-law, nephew and niece to arrive, since George had married Angelina Johnson and they had 2 kids, Fred and Roxanne Weasley.
Fred was actually a year younger than James and would be going to Hogwarts next year and Roxanne was the same age as Albus.
Anyway, when they arrived, Ginny hugged her brother and said "Thanks for coming on such short notice."
"No problem sis, that's what family's for. Besides, when I heard that my niece wants to follow in the footsteps of her fantastic Uncle George, how could I say no?" George said with a grin.
"Except hopefully if any of my children will working in that joke shop with you and Ron, it'll be James and not Lily. You and Harry have already corrupted James, but you're not going to do it to Albus or Lily, do you understand." Ginny said.
"Relax sis, I'm just here to help Lily get over her fear of being hit by bludgers and get your approval of some new joke products before I send them to James at school." George said, since that was his sister's policy about sending joke shop goods to her kids at school, she had to approve them first.
Ginny nodded and said "Lily is already out on the pitch waiting for you. Fred, Roxanne, Albus is in his room and Angelina, we need to catch up."
Angelina nodded her agreement as they all split up, George was headed out to the pitch, Ginny and Angelina to the foyer and Roxanne and Fred went up to Albus's room.
"Uncle George." Lily said, running up to her uncle.
"Hey kiddo." George said.
"So Lily, you ready to finally hit a bludger." George asked.
Lily nodded.
"Okay, let's do this. Get in the air." George said.
Lily nodded as she got on her broom and kicked off.
"Now, when you see the bludger coming, just think of it as bashing in someone's head for making you mad." George suggested.
Lily nodded as she thought of the bludger as her father's rival, Draco Malfoy, telling her to just give up and that she'd never be a beater. Rage filled her up and she swung the bat with all her might and smacked the incoming bludger all the way to the other side of the pitch.
"Well done Lily." George said as he grabbed the bludger and wrestled it back into the quidditch ball case.
"Thanks Uncle George." Lily said as she landed and hugged her uncle.
