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Love stays the same
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-1977
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Pleeeeaaasseee???"
"No James"
Mia leaned against Remus, watching the amusing scene before her.
"Oh come on Harriet!" James said, getting down too beg at her feet.
"I told you, I don't have time to play quidditch."
"Don't have time?" said Sirius outraged. "That's like saying you don't have time to breathe!"
Harriet shook her head, and turned back to her Potions essay.
They were all in the room of requirement. Yes, all- Lily sat next to James, reading a book, making a new one appear every so often.
She looked up and met Mia's eye, and smiled slightly.
She was still taking everything in.
memory
"Okay, let me get this straight." Said Lily, pacing the room of requirement, "You and Mia are both werewolves"
"Yes." Remus said nervously
"And James, Peter, and Sirius are illegal animagi and go with you every full moon to the shrieking shack, which isn't really haunted."
"Yes."
"And you Marauders have a map of the school that shows where everyone is, and what they're doing."
"Yes"
"And James has an invisibility cloak?"
"Yes."
"I see… Well I just have one thing to say to you Mr. Lupin."
Remus cowered before a very angry Lily Evans. The others all glanced at each other fearfully.
"Why wasn't I told!?"
end of memory
Lily had accepted them, as James had promised she would. She was just a little… overwhelmed, about it all.
It was the Tuesday after the dance, and the Marauders and Lily were in the Room of requirement.
James was begging Harriet to try out for the Quidditch team tomorrow, and she was saying no, just to annoy him- (she had already confirmed with Mia that she was indeed going to try out for the Gryffindor team.)
"Why won't you try out?" James whined, shifting himself woefully from Harriet's feet.
"Because- I have plans tomorrow."
"Like what?" asked Sirius, who was also in on the joke.
"Like things other than bludgers or quaffles."
Sirius grinned when she did not put out snitches, and she winked at him when James' back was turned.
"Ok my lambs- it's that time again!" said James as he paced up and down in front of his teammates.
There was himself (captain and star chaser), Sirius (maniac beater), Bella Mark (one of the not-as-good-as-James chasers), Remus (Keeper), and Holly French (the other also-not-as-good-as-James chaser).
"We need to find one bloody outstanding seeker, and another beater," he said, broomstick slung over his shoulder.
"We've got this lot to work with" he jerked his finger over his shoulder, and the team groaned.
Two second years who looked like they would blow away in the lightest of breezes, three fifth girls dressed mostly in pink, a guy dressed in black and looking slightly bored, a Hufflepuff who looked lost, and...
"HARRIET!" James cried in relief.
"Yes James?" she smiled innocently and Sirius snickered.
"Thought you said you were busy with things that didn't involve bludgers or quaffles?" James asked raising an eyebrow.
She nodded.
"I'm here for Seeker tryouts"
"You caught the snitch in under six minutes! That's got to be a school record!" said James ecstatically as the newly added to team moved to the stands to take a breather.
"Thanks- my friend can catch it way faster than me though- his best was under a minute."
James' eyes nearly popped out of his head.
"Who is he? Does he go here?"
Harriet laughed, thinking 'if only you knew James…'
"His name's… Harold, and no, he doesn't go here."
'Yet…'
"Oh." said James, obviously disappointed.
'Oh, James' Harriet sighed sadly inside. 'Harry is brilliant, at so many things- and you'll never know that… No! I promise you, I promise you all that you will have the future you deserve'
"Hey, you all right Carson?" asked the other new member to their team- the guy dressed all in black- Jason Krad – she remembered.
"Thanks Jason, I'm fine."
He nodded, and turned back to the team, sitting beside Bella.
"What did he want?" asked Sirius coming and sitting next to her as James handed out team schedules.
"Just wanted to know if I was ok."
"Why wouldn't you be? You got onto the team!" said Sirius confused, and Harriet rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"There is more to life than quidditch Sirius"
"She's right," Remus said solemnly, leaning down from the step above them, "there's chocolate to consider as well."
"Moony; seriously, get out more."
Remus chuckled quietly, and left them to it.
It had been three days since Harriet had tried out, and somehow it had leaked out that she was the new seeker for Gryffindor.
This news had been greeted by a variety of different reactions.
The Gryffindors were ecstatic (particularly James) and Harriet was often thumped on the back in congratulations, and grins were sent her way by every member of Gryffindor house.
The Hufflepuffs mostly just took it in, and offered tentative smiles and small nods of encouragement when she passed.
The Ravenclaws were very much neutral, neither scowling at her as she walked by, nor congratulating her openly.
The Slytherins, however, were terrible.
They booed and hissed as they passed her, some tried to foot trip her; others merely scowled and made threatening comments.
"Hey Carson, better start practising" said Bellatrix Black as the seventh year Gryffindors and Slytherins waited outside Professor Slughorns classroom.
"For what?"
"Freefalling" she said malevolently, and before Sirius could draw his wand the bell had rang, and the laughing Slytherins were heading into potions.
"I am sick of this!" cried Harriet that night in the common room. Remus, Sirius and James nodded sympathetically- they knew the welcoming from the Slytherins hadn't been the best.
"They'll give up when they see how good you are against Ravenclaw." Said Sirius and James nodded.
"The games just under a week away Harriet- not long to go now, not long at all."
Hey! Sorry for the wait people, I have had mountains of homework to do- so pity me.
In the next chapter we have a look into a Slytherins thoughts- I'm not saying whose just yet! You'll have to wait and see.
Oh- and this chapter is dedicated to my (almost) sister, Lexi- cus it is your birthday tomorrow (and I did not forget!)
Chels