Chapter 5. The Match
"He really did it!"
"Impossible! How can he manage?"
"How do I know? However I heard the next house will be Ravenclaw!"
"What all the whispering about?" Lily asked Hannah and Felicity, when they arrive at their table in the Great Hall.
"Justin." said Hannah. "He manages to chase all the girls in Hufflepuff. Actually, I think the girls were just too kind to reject him."
"Omigosh," exclaimed Lily. "It only one and a half month!"
"I know." said Hannah. "A miracle, if you ask me."
"Justin is very fast in this." said Felicity. "He has all kinds of method. He spends lot of time in it. However he is good in Magic."
"Music too." said Hannah, looking at Lily.
"Hey I'm not going to be so easy to be chased. You guys wouldn't, will you?"
"I won't." said Hannah. "I'm sensible enough to ignore him."
"It's not that easy." said Felicity. "You'll see."
"Hi, girls. Did we miss anything?" asked Sirius, sitting beside Felicity. He gobbled up two pieces of toast at the same time.
"Justin finished Hufflepuff and now it's Ravenclaw's turn." said Felicity calmly. Sirius choked. Everybody took the chance to hit Sirius sharply at the back.
"Okay, okay! I'm all right now! You guys don't need to hit me that hard! I just can't believe that guy actually got the nerve to do that! Wait until he tries Slytherin!"
"It's just a game to him. He can really manage Slytherin girls!" said Felicity.
"Even the Slytherin girls fall for him, I'm sure that the boys won't!"
"Hey you guys, look." said James, pointing at Justin. He was talking towards the Ravenclaw table. When the girls saw him they all gathered their belongs, taking their plates and goblets and fled. Half of the people of their table were gone. Justin just shrugged and went back to the Gryfindor table, with Clarissa welcoming him.
"Did you guys see that? One boy came, all girls fled." chanted Sirius happily. Felicity glared at him.
"Don't be so harsh at Justin. He's pretty kind. Only he is a bit silly in things like that."
"We'll take your word for it." said Lily. "Personally I think he can't be that bad."
"Just make sure you're not in his spell." said James.
"Hmm guys, I need to go back to see my mother on Halloween week." said Remus, looking a bit pale.
"Oh. I'm so sorry." said Lily, knowing perfectly well Remus' mother wasn't ill. "When will you come back? Can you manage to come back on Halloween?"
"I don't know yet but I don't think I can." said Remus sadly. "But I think I can manage to play the match next week."
"Of course you can! You need to!" roared James and Sirius all together. "How can't you?"
"Haha.... all right. I can't let Justin have all the fun, can I?"
"Perhaps you guys should be friends with him." said Lily. "I think he is very lonely. He doesn't seem to have much friends."
"Of course he does. He has lots of Girl Friends." replied Remus. "Clarissa for example."
"You're not still angry at her, aren't you?" asked Lily.
"No, I'm just disappointed at her. Even Felicity came back. But she didn't." Lily patted him friendly.
"Never mind. I think she will choose who she think is suitable for her."
"I suppose so."
"Anyway, just be friends with him. I guess you guys will think he is not that bad as you think."
"Yeah, he is not as bad as I thought. He is worse than I thought." muttered Sirius and got a glare from Felicity.
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"Are you sure you can manage the match, Remus?" asked Hannah, looking worried.
"Of course," said Remus, with a weak smile. "Don't worry."
"Well, try to eat something, instead of toying with your food." said Sirius, who was busily eating.
"Yes, Mom." grinned Remus. Sirius throw an orange to Remus. Remus throw back a papaya.
"Hey, no fair!" shouted Sirius and begin to throw a whole watermelon to Remus. He ducked and it ended up landing on James shoulder.
"Ouch!" he rubbed his shoulder furiously. "So, you guys want a food fight before the match, huh?" and he began to throw the food on his plate at Remus and Sirius. He missed and it hit one of the boys in Slytherin.
"HEY!"
Soon the Great Hall was in chaos, for most of them were throwing food all over the place. Lily, Felicity and Hannah were still sitting there, enjoying their breakfast as they had used a spell and made a transparent shell to protect them from the fight around them.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???" shouted a voice. Everyone froze as if time had stopped. It was Dumbledore. He didn't look a but angry. In fact, he looked highly amused.
"Before your house teachers and others come in to tuck, I suppose we need to clean up this mess, shall we?" Then the people started to clean up.
"This would take all day." groaned Sirius, as he picked up the fruits on the floor.
"Accio fruits!" shouted James, pointing his wand to the floor. Immediately all kinds of fruits flew to him and James threw them to the buckets that Dumbledore had provided them.
"Accio plates!" called Remus.
"Accio food!" called Sirius. It finished all the cleaning. But then he also got the food from the table.
"That finished all the cleaning up," said Dumbledore. "I would add your house points if it weren't the food fight, " immediately the Great hall was in silence. "But, seeing you all cleaned up in short time, it will be a secret between us and no one would mention it to the teachers, is that so?" asked Dumbledore, smiling. Everyone nodded except for some Slytherin.
"What?" yelled Lucius Malfoy. "I think you should at least punish the starter of the fight, like Potter, Black and Lupin."
"Mr. Malfoy," said Dumbledore calmly. "If I really take the points from the starter, then I believe I should also deduct point from whom had joined the fight. I suppose you, Mr. Malfoy had also joined in the fight?"
Malfoy didn't answered. He just sat there, sulking, while Snape and the others glared at Dumbledore and James.
"What is the matter, Professor?" asked Professor McGonagall, walking in the Silent Great Hall.
"Oh good morning Professor. I'm just praising the students that the Great Hall is spotless even the students had finished eating." said Dumbledore, twinkling. The students looked at Professor with a grin. "I hope that the players would eat enough for the match this afternoon and of course, good luck."
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"Do you think that Malfoy is still the chaser of Slytherin?" asked Felicity when they sat down. "He had all the players cheated last time, you know."
"He got a new position. Seeker." said Lily.
"I dunno about being seeker. I just heard that he nearly got sacked if it weren't his father." said Hannah in disgust. "He provided the team new brooms, new supplies of everything! Even the balls with "Slytherin" printed on them!"
"No fair!" said a girl, coming near them.
"Clarissa!" screamed Lily and Felicity.
"Hey, I didn't know you guys miss me that much!" she said, sitting beside them.
"I thought you forgot all about us!" said Lily.
"I didn't, but I think it's a bit embarrassing if I'm go on with Justin in front of Remus." she blushed a bit. "I'm so sorry that I didn't told Remus everything, but I do not dare to."
"I don't know why you chose Justin instead of Remus." muttered Lily.
"I dunno either. I know that I wouldn't be will Justin that long and I would be more steady with Remus. But I somehow have this feeling that he is suitable for me than Remus." said Clarissa.
"Someday your 'feeling' will kill you." said Felicity, shaking her head.
"Well, you're still our friend," said Lily. "I think you have notice that Hannah had been closer with us now?"
"Of course." said Clarissa. "Hi Hannah. I see that you got stuck with.... them." she pointed at Lily and Felicity. "I'm so sorry for you. I escaped just in time. Let me just warn you about Lily first. Hmm..... let me see..... oh yes... Ahem. What to do when Lily pushes you to study or read. Firstly you should the exact book to hit her on the head. Secondly you should get some water and pour it down on the book, not on Lily. Thirdly..."
"Clarissa!" said Lily, half teasingly and half annoyed.
"Oh. Hmm, remind me to tell you more when we get back to school." said Clarissa to Hannah, who looked a bit confused. "Oh hey look, there's Justin! JUSTIN!!! OVER HERE!"
"Here we go again." muttered Felicity.
"Howdy folks and today's our first Quidditch Match of the year!" yelled Michael Peterwoods. He was doing the commentary of the match. "Today it will be Gryffindor against Slytherin! This year, the Slytherin got new Quidditch brooms and supplies by their usual dirty ways....."
"Peterwoods!"
"Oh, so sorry Professor that I said the truth out loud.... Ahem, Gryffindor got four second years as their team. One of the chaser is our exchanged student, Justin White! The others are Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." A crowd of girls were cheering loud and hard.
"Justin got lots of fans." said Lily, as she strongly suspected that they are mostly cheering for Justin.
"I'm not that sure. I think Remus and Sirius as just as popular." said Felicity, who was cheering hard with Hannah. "Who are you cheering for the most, Hannah? Sirius, Remus or Justin?" Hannah blushed.
"I'm not cheering for them. I'm cheering for Gryffindor." Lily eyed at her suspiciously.
"Of course, the seeker for Gryffindor is James Potter! This year's Slytherin's seeker is Lucius Malfoy, before he is a chaser. Surprisingly not being sacked for last year's disgrace....."
"PETERWOODS!"
"Oops! Sorry Professor, done it again!"
Lily watched James and his friends as they mount their brooms. She looked at Justin. He was obviously finding someone, as he was scanning the place up and down. Perhaps he's finding Clarissa, thought Lily. Madam Hooch blew her whistle.
"There goes Slytherin's chaser, Prusculla Parkinson took the Quaffle. Sirius Black snatched it and Parkinson got it back again. Oh Black snatched it back again! Looks like the snatching is going to continue.... oh Black pass it to Remus Lupin. There goes Fergus Coville got the Quaffle and race towards the goal and SHOOT! Luckily, Joan Simmons, Gryfindor's captain and keeper saved the goal!"
Lily held her breath as she watched her friend flying around in high speed. It was so fast that she got a bit dizzy by just watching the Quaffle.
"Lupin got the Quaffle and flew to the goal in top speed. But hey, the two Slytherin's chasers, Parkinson and Louis Place is trying to stop him... they tried to snatch the Quaffle, but Lupin hold it well.... Place kicked Lupin off the broom! Lupin's legs managed to take hold of the broom. The Slytherins should get a penalty for this...what? Lupin shoot the goal!! He is still hanging on his broom for dear life."
Lily looked at Remus anxiously, trying to see if he was hurt. Luckily, he wasn't and he soon was on his broom again.
"Coville got the Quaffle, flew past Black and Remus... Justin White, our exchanged student managed to get the Quaffle! White flew quickly to the goal and try to shoot... but was stopped by Coville as he got the Quaffle back.... White and Coville continued snatching... White got it finally and shoot! But the keeper of Slytherin, Don Pelham saved it, worse luck... she threw it to Parkinson... but White caught it and shoot the goal with all his might... Gryffindor scores!!!"
Lily was wishing that Gryffindor keep on with the good results but unfortunately, Slytherin tie with them after a few minutes. Lily tried to find James, hoping he would get the Snitch. It seems to her that James is chasing the Snitch, but Malfoy was stopping him by doing dirty tricks. He pushed James, hold on James' scarlet robes. However, James didn't even try to get rid of him. What was he planing?
Something glittering near the ground caught Lily's eyes. The Snitch!!! James!! She cried to herself, the snitch is under you! James saw it almost immediately and Lily almost believe that he really did heard her. He made a dash for it. Malfoy saw it and flew toward it too, but as he was too busy bothering James, he started later than James. James held out his hand.....
"I GOT IT!" he roared.
"YES!!!" cried the players and went to hug James. Everyone in Gryffindor shrieked for joy. Lily, Felicity, Hannah and Clarissa hugged each other, as if they had caught the snitch themselves.
"He really did it!"
"Impossible! How can he manage?"
"How do I know? However I heard the next house will be Ravenclaw!"
"What all the whispering about?" Lily asked Hannah and Felicity, when they arrive at their table in the Great Hall.
"Justin." said Hannah. "He manages to chase all the girls in Hufflepuff. Actually, I think the girls were just too kind to reject him."
"Omigosh," exclaimed Lily. "It only one and a half month!"
"I know." said Hannah. "A miracle, if you ask me."
"Justin is very fast in this." said Felicity. "He has all kinds of method. He spends lot of time in it. However he is good in Magic."
"Music too." said Hannah, looking at Lily.
"Hey I'm not going to be so easy to be chased. You guys wouldn't, will you?"
"I won't." said Hannah. "I'm sensible enough to ignore him."
"It's not that easy." said Felicity. "You'll see."
"Hi, girls. Did we miss anything?" asked Sirius, sitting beside Felicity. He gobbled up two pieces of toast at the same time.
"Justin finished Hufflepuff and now it's Ravenclaw's turn." said Felicity calmly. Sirius choked. Everybody took the chance to hit Sirius sharply at the back.
"Okay, okay! I'm all right now! You guys don't need to hit me that hard! I just can't believe that guy actually got the nerve to do that! Wait until he tries Slytherin!"
"It's just a game to him. He can really manage Slytherin girls!" said Felicity.
"Even the Slytherin girls fall for him, I'm sure that the boys won't!"
"Hey you guys, look." said James, pointing at Justin. He was talking towards the Ravenclaw table. When the girls saw him they all gathered their belongs, taking their plates and goblets and fled. Half of the people of their table were gone. Justin just shrugged and went back to the Gryfindor table, with Clarissa welcoming him.
"Did you guys see that? One boy came, all girls fled." chanted Sirius happily. Felicity glared at him.
"Don't be so harsh at Justin. He's pretty kind. Only he is a bit silly in things like that."
"We'll take your word for it." said Lily. "Personally I think he can't be that bad."
"Just make sure you're not in his spell." said James.
"Hmm guys, I need to go back to see my mother on Halloween week." said Remus, looking a bit pale.
"Oh. I'm so sorry." said Lily, knowing perfectly well Remus' mother wasn't ill. "When will you come back? Can you manage to come back on Halloween?"
"I don't know yet but I don't think I can." said Remus sadly. "But I think I can manage to play the match next week."
"Of course you can! You need to!" roared James and Sirius all together. "How can't you?"
"Haha.... all right. I can't let Justin have all the fun, can I?"
"Perhaps you guys should be friends with him." said Lily. "I think he is very lonely. He doesn't seem to have much friends."
"Of course he does. He has lots of Girl Friends." replied Remus. "Clarissa for example."
"You're not still angry at her, aren't you?" asked Lily.
"No, I'm just disappointed at her. Even Felicity came back. But she didn't." Lily patted him friendly.
"Never mind. I think she will choose who she think is suitable for her."
"I suppose so."
"Anyway, just be friends with him. I guess you guys will think he is not that bad as you think."
"Yeah, he is not as bad as I thought. He is worse than I thought." muttered Sirius and got a glare from Felicity.
*******
"Are you sure you can manage the match, Remus?" asked Hannah, looking worried.
"Of course," said Remus, with a weak smile. "Don't worry."
"Well, try to eat something, instead of toying with your food." said Sirius, who was busily eating.
"Yes, Mom." grinned Remus. Sirius throw an orange to Remus. Remus throw back a papaya.
"Hey, no fair!" shouted Sirius and begin to throw a whole watermelon to Remus. He ducked and it ended up landing on James shoulder.
"Ouch!" he rubbed his shoulder furiously. "So, you guys want a food fight before the match, huh?" and he began to throw the food on his plate at Remus and Sirius. He missed and it hit one of the boys in Slytherin.
"HEY!"
Soon the Great Hall was in chaos, for most of them were throwing food all over the place. Lily, Felicity and Hannah were still sitting there, enjoying their breakfast as they had used a spell and made a transparent shell to protect them from the fight around them.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???" shouted a voice. Everyone froze as if time had stopped. It was Dumbledore. He didn't look a but angry. In fact, he looked highly amused.
"Before your house teachers and others come in to tuck, I suppose we need to clean up this mess, shall we?" Then the people started to clean up.
"This would take all day." groaned Sirius, as he picked up the fruits on the floor.
"Accio fruits!" shouted James, pointing his wand to the floor. Immediately all kinds of fruits flew to him and James threw them to the buckets that Dumbledore had provided them.
"Accio plates!" called Remus.
"Accio food!" called Sirius. It finished all the cleaning. But then he also got the food from the table.
"That finished all the cleaning up," said Dumbledore. "I would add your house points if it weren't the food fight, " immediately the Great hall was in silence. "But, seeing you all cleaned up in short time, it will be a secret between us and no one would mention it to the teachers, is that so?" asked Dumbledore, smiling. Everyone nodded except for some Slytherin.
"What?" yelled Lucius Malfoy. "I think you should at least punish the starter of the fight, like Potter, Black and Lupin."
"Mr. Malfoy," said Dumbledore calmly. "If I really take the points from the starter, then I believe I should also deduct point from whom had joined the fight. I suppose you, Mr. Malfoy had also joined in the fight?"
Malfoy didn't answered. He just sat there, sulking, while Snape and the others glared at Dumbledore and James.
"What is the matter, Professor?" asked Professor McGonagall, walking in the Silent Great Hall.
"Oh good morning Professor. I'm just praising the students that the Great Hall is spotless even the students had finished eating." said Dumbledore, twinkling. The students looked at Professor with a grin. "I hope that the players would eat enough for the match this afternoon and of course, good luck."
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"Do you think that Malfoy is still the chaser of Slytherin?" asked Felicity when they sat down. "He had all the players cheated last time, you know."
"He got a new position. Seeker." said Lily.
"I dunno about being seeker. I just heard that he nearly got sacked if it weren't his father." said Hannah in disgust. "He provided the team new brooms, new supplies of everything! Even the balls with "Slytherin" printed on them!"
"No fair!" said a girl, coming near them.
"Clarissa!" screamed Lily and Felicity.
"Hey, I didn't know you guys miss me that much!" she said, sitting beside them.
"I thought you forgot all about us!" said Lily.
"I didn't, but I think it's a bit embarrassing if I'm go on with Justin in front of Remus." she blushed a bit. "I'm so sorry that I didn't told Remus everything, but I do not dare to."
"I don't know why you chose Justin instead of Remus." muttered Lily.
"I dunno either. I know that I wouldn't be will Justin that long and I would be more steady with Remus. But I somehow have this feeling that he is suitable for me than Remus." said Clarissa.
"Someday your 'feeling' will kill you." said Felicity, shaking her head.
"Well, you're still our friend," said Lily. "I think you have notice that Hannah had been closer with us now?"
"Of course." said Clarissa. "Hi Hannah. I see that you got stuck with.... them." she pointed at Lily and Felicity. "I'm so sorry for you. I escaped just in time. Let me just warn you about Lily first. Hmm..... let me see..... oh yes... Ahem. What to do when Lily pushes you to study or read. Firstly you should the exact book to hit her on the head. Secondly you should get some water and pour it down on the book, not on Lily. Thirdly..."
"Clarissa!" said Lily, half teasingly and half annoyed.
"Oh. Hmm, remind me to tell you more when we get back to school." said Clarissa to Hannah, who looked a bit confused. "Oh hey look, there's Justin! JUSTIN!!! OVER HERE!"
"Here we go again." muttered Felicity.
"Howdy folks and today's our first Quidditch Match of the year!" yelled Michael Peterwoods. He was doing the commentary of the match. "Today it will be Gryffindor against Slytherin! This year, the Slytherin got new Quidditch brooms and supplies by their usual dirty ways....."
"Peterwoods!"
"Oh, so sorry Professor that I said the truth out loud.... Ahem, Gryffindor got four second years as their team. One of the chaser is our exchanged student, Justin White! The others are Sirius Black and Remus Lupin." A crowd of girls were cheering loud and hard.
"Justin got lots of fans." said Lily, as she strongly suspected that they are mostly cheering for Justin.
"I'm not that sure. I think Remus and Sirius as just as popular." said Felicity, who was cheering hard with Hannah. "Who are you cheering for the most, Hannah? Sirius, Remus or Justin?" Hannah blushed.
"I'm not cheering for them. I'm cheering for Gryffindor." Lily eyed at her suspiciously.
"Of course, the seeker for Gryffindor is James Potter! This year's Slytherin's seeker is Lucius Malfoy, before he is a chaser. Surprisingly not being sacked for last year's disgrace....."
"PETERWOODS!"
"Oops! Sorry Professor, done it again!"
Lily watched James and his friends as they mount their brooms. She looked at Justin. He was obviously finding someone, as he was scanning the place up and down. Perhaps he's finding Clarissa, thought Lily. Madam Hooch blew her whistle.
"There goes Slytherin's chaser, Prusculla Parkinson took the Quaffle. Sirius Black snatched it and Parkinson got it back again. Oh Black snatched it back again! Looks like the snatching is going to continue.... oh Black pass it to Remus Lupin. There goes Fergus Coville got the Quaffle and race towards the goal and SHOOT! Luckily, Joan Simmons, Gryfindor's captain and keeper saved the goal!"
Lily held her breath as she watched her friend flying around in high speed. It was so fast that she got a bit dizzy by just watching the Quaffle.
"Lupin got the Quaffle and flew to the goal in top speed. But hey, the two Slytherin's chasers, Parkinson and Louis Place is trying to stop him... they tried to snatch the Quaffle, but Lupin hold it well.... Place kicked Lupin off the broom! Lupin's legs managed to take hold of the broom. The Slytherins should get a penalty for this...what? Lupin shoot the goal!! He is still hanging on his broom for dear life."
Lily looked at Remus anxiously, trying to see if he was hurt. Luckily, he wasn't and he soon was on his broom again.
"Coville got the Quaffle, flew past Black and Remus... Justin White, our exchanged student managed to get the Quaffle! White flew quickly to the goal and try to shoot... but was stopped by Coville as he got the Quaffle back.... White and Coville continued snatching... White got it finally and shoot! But the keeper of Slytherin, Don Pelham saved it, worse luck... she threw it to Parkinson... but White caught it and shoot the goal with all his might... Gryffindor scores!!!"
Lily was wishing that Gryffindor keep on with the good results but unfortunately, Slytherin tie with them after a few minutes. Lily tried to find James, hoping he would get the Snitch. It seems to her that James is chasing the Snitch, but Malfoy was stopping him by doing dirty tricks. He pushed James, hold on James' scarlet robes. However, James didn't even try to get rid of him. What was he planing?
Something glittering near the ground caught Lily's eyes. The Snitch!!! James!! She cried to herself, the snitch is under you! James saw it almost immediately and Lily almost believe that he really did heard her. He made a dash for it. Malfoy saw it and flew toward it too, but as he was too busy bothering James, he started later than James. James held out his hand.....
"I GOT IT!" he roared.
"YES!!!" cried the players and went to hug James. Everyone in Gryffindor shrieked for joy. Lily, Felicity, Hannah and Clarissa hugged each other, as if they had caught the snitch themselves.
