A/N: Two reviews this month! Thanks guys! :) Another short chapter, don't fret, they'll get longer eventually. You're getting this chapter early since I'm going to be out of town for the weekend. Maybe you'll get another chapter in honor of Halloween, and maybe a review might tip the scales in favor of a new chapter. Anyway, I don't own Harry Potter, Enjoy!

Quidditch

Mid-September, 1990

Second Year

As Second Years, those interested were allowed to try out for their house Quidditch teams. Over the summer, Leili had explained to Jo the rules of the game, they had even played mock games in her backyard, with her dad supervising and a concealment charm cast around the backyard. Leili's dad had charmed 2 small balls, a soccer ball and a walnut to zoom around the back yard and had let the girls play Quidditch, as best as they could with only two, sometimes three, people playing.

Jo had turned out to be quite the beater and it was at Leili's dad's suggestion and Leili's persistent badgering that Jo had signed up for tryouts. Now it was the morning of and Leili looked at Jo's empty plate. "Jo, you need to eat something," she said.

"Can't, too nervous."

"If you don't, you'll fall into hypoglycemic shock, you'll get the shakes and you won't be able to hit the bludger and you won't make the team. You'll have to wait another year to try out. Now, you don't want that and I don't want that, so eat your breakfast." Jo picked up a piece of toast and nibbled at it. Leili smiled, it was instances like these that led people to believe that Leili could 'control' Jo. She couldn't really, if Jo wanted to do something she'd do it, and vice versa. Admittedly, sometimes a little persuading could get them moving a bit faster.

"You'll be there for luck?" Jo asked,

"I've got the pom poms ready and everything," Leili nodded. "Don't worry, you'll be fine," Leili tried to reassure her, giving Jo a friendly bump with her shoulder.

Jo felt the cold morning air pick up her ponytail as she took to the sky with her bat. She shot a quick glance to the benches where she saw Leilani standing at the railing, bouncing up and down and hooting encouragingly. Jo also saw that Leili had made good on the pompoms, they were even in Hufflepuff colors. Jo smiled, and turned her attention back to the game at hand. A Bludger came whizzing at her and with a mighty 'WHACK!' Jo sent it flying away. Again and again, Jo whacked the bludger away. She missed it only once, when her reflexes hadn't been quite fast enough to switch the bat to her other hand and hit the ball when it headed for her other side.

Those trying out had to sit and wait until everyone had gone and the team captain had chosen the new players and announced it to the assembled group. "Well? How'd you do?" Leili asked after the announcements were made and Jo was free to go.

"I made the reserves!" Jo said with a twinge of disappointment, she hadn't made the team, but she'd been good enough to warrant a placement as a back up. That was something, at least.

"What did they say?"

"They said I needed to work on my left reflexes but that if anything happened to one of the other beaters before the game, I'm in."

"Well, that's good! We'll practice again during summer, but at least they liked you well enough to keep you on in the reserves." Leili said.