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Chapter 11: Quidditch.

Madam Pomfrey insisted for Lily to stay in the hospital wing until Wednesday. The friends visited Lily every day and Emily and Carrie were in charge of getting Lily her homework. They couldn't understand why anyone would want to do homework when they were ill.

In the Great Hall James was making sure his friends that were trying out for the team ate a proper amount of food so that they would have more energy.

"Emily, eat some more bananas, Carrie, drink more juice, Sirius eat an orange!" James ordered.

"James! Stop it, you're making me nervous," Sirius said. Remus came, walking along the Gryffindor Table, he sat down next to Emily.

"James, have you heard who the new Slytherin Quidditch Captain is?" Remus asked.

"No, who? It's not Snape is it?" James got a worried look on his face.

"No, no. It's Nott! Avery's seeker!" Remus replied. James' mouth fell open.

"No way! You can't be serious?" James burst out.

"James, how many times do I have to tell you? I'm Sirius!" Sirius said.

"Padfoot, that line is getting so old," Emily said. Sirius looked puzzled.

"What?" he asked.

"Never mind," Emily sighed. James finished eating and stood up.

"I'm going down there, to check-" James said and started walking down to the Quidditch Pitch. "See you later."

"Padfoot, Raven, let's get our brooms," Carrie said and stood up. The three friends ran up to the Gryffindor Common Room, brought their brooms, and put on their robes.

They were down at the Pitch 5 minutes later. A lot of people were there already. They started looking around for James, but they couldn't see him.

"Let's take a practise lap. Up and away!" Emily said and stretched.

"Come on!" Sirius kicked off, Emily and Carrie followed. They were flying up there for about 10 minutes.

"OK! Everybody stand around me!" James screamed. "Make sure you can all hear and see me!" Everyone welled in and filled all spaces. "Right, to make sure. Put your hand up if you are a first year!" About 8 people put their hand up. "Go back to the Common Room, you should know that first years aren't allowed to play! OK, Sirius, Emily and Carrie, come up here!" James said.

"What?" Carrie asked when they came up.

"You're helping me," James said. "We'll do Keepers first. Everyone trying out for Keeper stand over here," James pointed to his right. "Everyone else, you can sit down and do whatever you want. Right," James said and turned to the Keepers. "I have all your names down, I will call you up, you fly to the hoop, and Emily will shoot 5 times. The one who can save the most goals and have the best technique get the position. Alexander Damian, you're first up!" James chucked the Quaffle to Emily, and she went up in the air with Alexander. "Carrie, Sirius, help me keep count."

Alexander only managed to save 3 out of 5. Then a second year, Jamie Baker didn't make any. 10 people later, the winner came, Marlene McKinnon, 5th year. James then set up the Chasers, they had to shoot 10 times at Marlene to try and score. Jainie Johnson and Harry Green made it as chasers. The team was ready and trials were over.

"I'm still gonna put a notice up on the notice board so people can see who made it," James said, face full of mud. The Pitch had been muddy, and half way through the chasers it had started raining, which made it even easier to fall when going to get someone.

"OK, capt'n," Carrie said and saluted him like a pirate, her robes were brown from mud and green from grass.

"I seriously need to take a shower," Emily said, and spat some mud out on the steps leading to the Oak Doors, she had just slipped and some mud came in her mouth.

"Join the club," said Sirius, he was trying to get all the mud out of his hair. They raced up to the Common Room, and into their dormitories. James and Sirius walked up the small steps to the bathroom, and took a shower. The girls did the same. When they were done they walked down to the Common Room.

James took out a quill, and a piece of parchment and started writing. Althea and Elaine came up a while later.

"Don't you think Sirius is such a good flier?" Elaine said, giggling. She was linking arms with Althea, and looking at Sirius whilst they were walking past.

"Not only is he a good flier, but he's good-looking too!" Althea giggled, turning pink. Carrie and Emily looked over at them and rolled their eyes.

"Did you hear that?" Sirius said. Carrie stood up pretending to look at something, she walked up behind Sirius. "Elaine and Althea like me!" Carrie rolled her eyes again and smacked him at the back of his head, then she ran to the notice board. "Hey! That hurt!" Sirius turned around and noticed he was talking to no-one. "Who just smacked me?" he whined. Carrie came back pretending like nothing had happened. "Carrie someone just smacked on the back of my head. If you saw who it was can you punch them?"

"Sure, but not too hard!" Carrie said and punched herself lightly. "Done!" Sirius rolled his eyes.

"Why do you hit me all the time?" Sirius asked, in a whiney voice.

"I do not hit you all the time," Carrie said. "It's fun!" Sirius pretended to cry, Althea saw him.

"Awww, he's so cute when he cries," she said.

"He is not crying!" Emily called over to them. "He's pretending to, because Carrie hit him again." Althea and Elaine shot Carrie evil looks and walked up to the Girl's Dormitory.

"Pfft! Why do they care?" Carrie said, annoyed.

"You could damage my brain and my hair! That's why I care," Sirius whined, Carrie rolled her eyes again.

"Done!" James said, and showed his friends the notice which was written with his scrawny handwriting.

"Nice!" Sirius said. James went to put it up on the notice board. When he came back Carrie said,

"I'm so bored, I wish it could be full moon!"

"You might, I don't!" Remus said behind her. "You do know it's painful. Besides, you haven't mastered your animagus yet. Do you have any idea of what animal it will be?"

"No need to rub it in! I don't know what animal it's going to be, but next full moon, I will have mastered it," Carrie said.

"Maybe it will be a phoenix," James suggested. "Then if one of us got hurt then, you could heal us again, plus you could carry us, because Phoenixes have amazing strength."

"What shape has it been when you tried before?" Peter asked. Carrie paused, thinking for a moment.

"I'm not really sure," Carrie said. "What has it looked like to you?" Everyone shrugged, Carrie stood up. "Maybe there's a book in the library that says anything about animagi, and then I can master it sooner." Carrie walked away.

James bent over into his school bag and took out another piece of parchment and laid it down on the table. He took the quill he was using earlier and started to draw something.

"Emily, wanna play Exploding Snap?" Sirius asked.

"Sure, why not. Coming Wormtail?" Emily said and walked over to an open space, Sirius and Peter soon followed. James sat in the armchair, still drawing. Remus looked over at James' drawing.

"What are you drawing?" he asked. James shrugged, he drew some more lines and connected them. He drew some brooms flying around and drew some people flying on them.

"Quidditch match maybe," James replied a while later.

About an hour later Carrie came back, she had a faint red hand print on the left side of her cheek, from leaning on her hand in the library. She was holding a massively, heavy book, she walked up next to James and slammed the book down on the table. James, now annoyed, looked up at her with an annoyed look.

"Do you mind not slamming massive books down on the table when I'm drawing?" James snapped. Carrie looked weirdly at him and sat down.

"Sorry, I didn't know you get moody when you draw, if that's the case, you shouldn't draw often," Carrie replied, and flipped through the pages of the book, she had brought from the library.

"Shut up!" James, now even more annoyed, snapped. He stood up, grabbed his bag and stuffed his drawing in it, put his robes on and stormed out of the Common Room, and up to the Heads Dormitories.

"What's the matter with him?" Carrie asked Remus, who was writing an essay for Ancient Runes.

"I don't know, he was all-right a moment ago, whatever it is he got himself some mood-swings," Remus replied, and looked up. Sirius came over, with Emily and Peter.

"Who has mood-swings?" Sirius asked Remus curiously.

"James," he replied, still writing. Sirius started laughing.

"And why, may I ask is that funny?" Carrie said, she looked up at Sirius.

"Maybe he's pregnant!" Sirius replied. Remus rolled his eyes, Carrie slammed the book shut and stared at Sirius, whilst Emily started laughing.

"You are so dumb! There is no way possible for that to happen!" Emily said, Sirius faked being hurt.

"You never know, James might be half-girl, half-boy," Sirius said. Peter burst out laughing. "We should ask him,"

"Yes Sirius. That'll be a fun conversation!" Carrie said sarcastically. "Hey James, tell us, are you half-girl, half-boy? Because Padfoot thinks you're pregnant!" Carrie said, pretending to talk to James, Peter started laughing even more, even Remus cracked a smile.

"Carrie, stop with the jokes, we don't want Wormtail here to wet himself," Emily joked, Peter looked hurt, Emily noticed. "I was joking, now go to the toilet so you don't have an accident!" Peter ran off quickly, blushing. The gang laughed. A little girl, she couldn't have been older than second looked at the friends horrifed.

"Believe me, if he were your friend you would have done the same," Sirius reassured her. The little girl blushed and quickly looked away. A 5th year walked past the friends, of course Sirius had to wink at her. "Hi, I'm Sirius Black."

"Gemma Lynch," the 5th year said, she had short chin-length brown hair and sapphire eyes.

"Do you want to come with me to Hogsmeade tomorrow?" Sirius asked her. She seemed to think it over, then she shrugged.

"Sure, why not?" Gemma answered.

"Great, I'll meet you at the Three Broomsticks, at, say, 12 o'clock?" Sirius replied, smiling.

"OK, see you then." Gemma walked up the stairs to her dormitory.

"Sirius, you're going out with Violet tomorrow!" Carrie said.

"I know, that's why I said meet me at 2. I'll have 2 hours with Violet, then I'll ditch her, and meet up with Gemma."

"Why would you ditch Violet, she was perfectly good-looking, she didn't look like a troll," Remus said.

"I know but Gemma is much more fit than Violet," Sirius replied. Carrie and Emily hadn't heard the last sentence that Sirius said, they were still shocked by what Remus said.

"Excuse me?" Emily said. "What did you just say Moony?"

"You call some of the girls here trolls?" Carrie repeated disgustedly, she had her infamous disgusted look on her face. "That is the kind of stuff you hear from... I don't know, but the only people who are trolls here are the Slytherins and maybe Marcus Midgeon."

"Why Marcus Midgeon?" Sirius asked.

"He has terrible acne," Remus said.

"Pizza face!" Carrie said.

"That's rude." Sirius said.

"And this comes from the guy who calls girls trolls!" Emily said. "Anyway, I'm off to bed. Good night," she added and walked to the dormitory, Carrie followed a couple of minutes later.

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