THE NEW INTERNATIONAL WIZARDING SPORT?

...back at the tower, Lily, James, and Sirius explained the game of baseball over and over, while Remus stood next to Sirius, correcting him from time to time. "And then you take a bat-" "A live one?" The first years looked at him eagerly. "Well, ye-" "NO! You don't, a bat is a sort of narrow wooden club." Sirius gave Remus his famous 'Fine, Spoil my fun!' face and Remus simply ignored him, while James and Lily were having troubles of their own.

As Lily explained how you ran from one base to another after hitting the ball, "What? Why do you have to hit the ball?" Lily groaned. First years were so annoying! "Because," She explained, "when people throw the ball, and you hit it, you make it hard for them to grab it and tag you out as I already explained. "But they can just call the ball to them!" protested a second year called Alica Jennise. "No wands! No magic in this game! We, er- muggles play it without magic, and so can we."

James had the most success explaining simply because he could talk the loudest of the four of them. After he was done explaining, however, he noticed that several of the girls listening had been doing hair curling spells and as a result, felt responsible to explain all the rules over, until he found that all five of them were muggle-born and knew perfectly well how to play baseball. Poor James considered this a waste of time and assigned them to clear up all explinations of the game so he could go and hit his head on the wall.

Lily, Sirius and Remus had all finally finished explaining how to play baseball, and were quite relieve to hear that since they did such a good job, the other Gryffendors would be explaining it to the other houses, in small groups. James, of course, didn't hear any of this because he was too busy hitting his head on the wall. Professor McGonagall stopped him before he permenantly damaged himself, as he was starting to make an indentation in the wall, that would never be repaired for the sheer joy of re-telling how it got there.