AN: I promise lots more romance in the next chapter! Please review!
Chapter 5: The Captain and The Keeper
Harry carefully wrote Angelina on his small piece of parchment and threw it into the purple bowl with the rest. He was at the first quidditch practice of the year. Well, it wasn't really a practice. It was more like a meeting to discuss who would be captain and keeper tryouts. They had decided to vote on quidditch captain, because it had seemed like the fairest way to do it. Fred finished writing and finally put his parchment in the bowl.
"I'll count the votes!" Alicia shouted. Dramatically she pulled out the first bit of parchment.
"One for Fred!" She exclaimed and reached into the bowl again. "One for Angelina! Let's see here. Another for Angelina! Another For Fred! Angelina and Fred tied with two!" She dipped her hand into the bowl once more bringing out the remaining two votes. "This one is for Katie!" Alicia looked down at the remaining slip of parchment in her hand and very slowly started to unfold it.
"Oh hurry up woman! I would like to designate a captain before the season is over!" Fred yelled anxiously.
Alicia glared at him playfully, but complied and opened up the parchment quickly instead of drawing it out. "Angelina!" She screamed. She jumped up and hugged Angelina as Katie Bell did the same thing.
"Congrats Angelina." Harry told her grinning.
"Thank guys! This is great!" She smiled at the team.
Fred looked a little downcast, but Harry realized this was all part of the show a second later. He went up to Angelina and politely shook her hand. Angelina started snickering like crazy. She slapped her knees and shook with laughter. It took Harry a minute to realize.
"Fred, what did you do?" He questioned, peering down at Angelina who was now rolling on the ground cackling like an idiot.
Fred grinned. "Its Giggle Goop. George and I invented it." He held up a hand smeared with a green cream. "It only lasts for a minute." As if on cue, Angelina abruptly stopped chuckling and rounded on Fred.
"What was that about?" She was attempting to sound angry, but her smile gave her away. She smacked Fred upside the head.
"Hey! What was that for?" He asked innocently. Angelina glared at him playfully.
"How come you weren't laughing?" Harry asked Fred. "It was on your hand too."
Fred looked down at the offending hand. "Oh well, I enchanted one of my gloves to be invisible so it wouldn't give the joke away. Visiblio!" He shouted, pointing his wand at his hand. A homemade glove appeared on his hand. "See?' He smirked at Angelina. "So Cappy, what about them keeper tryouts?"
"Well let me think for a second." She paused. "Let's see today is Thursday so how about we post an announcement in the common room and have tryouts Saturday at…10am." She glanced at the rest of the team. They nodded and there were mutterings of "alright" and "sounds good to me."
Angelina grinned. "Practices will start next week. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights and Saturday mornings." She concluded. They started to make their way to the castle. When they got to Gryffindor, Angelina posted a sheet with all the keeper information. Everyone gathered around to look at it.
Ron and Ginny came over. Ron shrugged and went back to his chess game with Hermione, but Ginny's eyes flashed excitedly. Harry made his way over to Ron and Hermione.
"You gonna try for keeper, Ron? Harry asked him. Ron held up a hand to silence him while he directed his knight to take Hermione's bishop.
"No. I'm not very good at keeper. I play chaser, mainly when we scrimmage at home. Ginny always plays keeper." Harry nodded and sat down to watch the chess game, in which Hermione's pieces were being massacred.
Angelina wanted the whole quidditch team to be present at the tryouts, so they could vote on it. She wanted it to be a team decision. So Harry awoke on Saturday at 9:30, jumped in the shower, and went out onto the quidditch pitch. There were 4 candidates for the keeper position. The first person was a 6th year, Austin LeMarck, who Harry knew by sight, but had never actually spoken too. He was okay, but nothing special. He stopped 5 quaffles out of 10 that Angelina threw at him. The next person was the little first year, Jake Alconic. Remarkably, he did a very good job, and Harry had to admit he was impressed. He stopped 7 of the 10 quaffles thrown at him by Alicia. Seamus was next and he did horrible. He didn't seem too upset that he had only stopped 3 quaffles.
Harry was surprised at the next person in line, and wondered how he hadn't spotted her before. It was Ginny. Harry watched her intently as she flew in and out of the goal post and then got in position as Katie Bell came speeding towards her and threw the quaffle hard towards the right goal post. Ginny dove, nearly falling off of her broom, and made the save. She ended up making 7 saves, the same as the tiny first year Jake.
The Gryffindor team got in a huddle and Katie was the first person to speak. "I think we should give it to Ginny as she is a 4th year. Jake can get a spot on the team when he is older." The rest of the team nodded in approval.
"So is it a unanimous?" Angelina asked looking at everyone as she spoke. No one contradicted her so she walked towards the candidates to announce their decision.
"Now you all did very well." Dean, who was standing with Seamus awaiting the team's verdict, snorted loudly. Seamus, looking indignant, punched him in the shoulder. Angelina waited until they were finished before speaking again. "But we can only pick one of you. So we decided on Ginny Weasley. Congratualtions! You are our new keeper!" Ginny gave a squeal of delight, while Jake's shoulders sagged and he looked disappointed. Harry felt bad for Jake, as he was very talented, but he had secretly wanted Ginny to get the position, though he wasn't sure why.
Later that night, Ginny told Ron the news, and he looked genuinely excited for her.
"Cool!" He grinned at Harry. "Maybe next year I can get on the team as chaser." Ron grinned. Fred soon joined the group.
"This calls for celebration!" Fred walked towards Harry and he wondered if he should run. But he didn't have to worry; Fred merely whispered in his ear, "George and I will get candy from Honeydukes. You know how to get in the kitchens don't you?" Harry nodded. "Good. Get some éclairs and cakes from the elves." Fred winked at him and Harry grinned.
Harry ran up to his dormitory to grab his invisibility cloak, as it was nearly 11 and he didn't think teachers would appreciate him roaming around the corridors this late. He made his way towards the entrance of the kitchens, but stopped when he heard voices. He followed the sound of the whispers and was surprised to see Dumbledore and Snape chatting quietly in an empty classroom. Harry heard snatches of their conversation.
"…didn't tell us where or when or how he was going to do it. He makes sure his followers don't know everything." Snape muttered and Harry could barely here him.
"But your sure, he said he was going to attack? Your positive?" Dumbledore asked Snape anxiously. Snape nodded. Dumbledore's shoulders sagged and Harry thought he looked older than ever before. Snape and Dumbledore made their way towards the door of the classroom where Harry was standing and he quickly started back on his way towards the kitchens. He got the cakes and éclairs Fred had requested and returned to Gryffindor. He joined normal conversation and ate cakes and Honeydukes candy with his friends for a half hour before feigning fatigue.
He went up to the dormitories, got into his pajamas, and lay in bed, thinking of the conversation he had heard. Snape had obviously been talking about Voldemort. He was attacking somewhere and wherever it was, Dumbledore had been sadder than Harry had ever seen him. Where was Voldemort going to attack? Why was everyone going to such great lengths to keep him and his friends out of it? Harry lay in bed for a long time stewing these questions over and over in his mind, wondering what Voldemort held in store for the Wizarding world.
Chapter 5: The Captain and The Keeper
Harry carefully wrote Angelina on his small piece of parchment and threw it into the purple bowl with the rest. He was at the first quidditch practice of the year. Well, it wasn't really a practice. It was more like a meeting to discuss who would be captain and keeper tryouts. They had decided to vote on quidditch captain, because it had seemed like the fairest way to do it. Fred finished writing and finally put his parchment in the bowl.
"I'll count the votes!" Alicia shouted. Dramatically she pulled out the first bit of parchment.
"One for Fred!" She exclaimed and reached into the bowl again. "One for Angelina! Let's see here. Another for Angelina! Another For Fred! Angelina and Fred tied with two!" She dipped her hand into the bowl once more bringing out the remaining two votes. "This one is for Katie!" Alicia looked down at the remaining slip of parchment in her hand and very slowly started to unfold it.
"Oh hurry up woman! I would like to designate a captain before the season is over!" Fred yelled anxiously.
Alicia glared at him playfully, but complied and opened up the parchment quickly instead of drawing it out. "Angelina!" She screamed. She jumped up and hugged Angelina as Katie Bell did the same thing.
"Congrats Angelina." Harry told her grinning.
"Thank guys! This is great!" She smiled at the team.
Fred looked a little downcast, but Harry realized this was all part of the show a second later. He went up to Angelina and politely shook her hand. Angelina started snickering like crazy. She slapped her knees and shook with laughter. It took Harry a minute to realize.
"Fred, what did you do?" He questioned, peering down at Angelina who was now rolling on the ground cackling like an idiot.
Fred grinned. "Its Giggle Goop. George and I invented it." He held up a hand smeared with a green cream. "It only lasts for a minute." As if on cue, Angelina abruptly stopped chuckling and rounded on Fred.
"What was that about?" She was attempting to sound angry, but her smile gave her away. She smacked Fred upside the head.
"Hey! What was that for?" He asked innocently. Angelina glared at him playfully.
"How come you weren't laughing?" Harry asked Fred. "It was on your hand too."
Fred looked down at the offending hand. "Oh well, I enchanted one of my gloves to be invisible so it wouldn't give the joke away. Visiblio!" He shouted, pointing his wand at his hand. A homemade glove appeared on his hand. "See?' He smirked at Angelina. "So Cappy, what about them keeper tryouts?"
"Well let me think for a second." She paused. "Let's see today is Thursday so how about we post an announcement in the common room and have tryouts Saturday at…10am." She glanced at the rest of the team. They nodded and there were mutterings of "alright" and "sounds good to me."
Angelina grinned. "Practices will start next week. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights and Saturday mornings." She concluded. They started to make their way to the castle. When they got to Gryffindor, Angelina posted a sheet with all the keeper information. Everyone gathered around to look at it.
Ron and Ginny came over. Ron shrugged and went back to his chess game with Hermione, but Ginny's eyes flashed excitedly. Harry made his way over to Ron and Hermione.
"You gonna try for keeper, Ron? Harry asked him. Ron held up a hand to silence him while he directed his knight to take Hermione's bishop.
"No. I'm not very good at keeper. I play chaser, mainly when we scrimmage at home. Ginny always plays keeper." Harry nodded and sat down to watch the chess game, in which Hermione's pieces were being massacred.
Angelina wanted the whole quidditch team to be present at the tryouts, so they could vote on it. She wanted it to be a team decision. So Harry awoke on Saturday at 9:30, jumped in the shower, and went out onto the quidditch pitch. There were 4 candidates for the keeper position. The first person was a 6th year, Austin LeMarck, who Harry knew by sight, but had never actually spoken too. He was okay, but nothing special. He stopped 5 quaffles out of 10 that Angelina threw at him. The next person was the little first year, Jake Alconic. Remarkably, he did a very good job, and Harry had to admit he was impressed. He stopped 7 of the 10 quaffles thrown at him by Alicia. Seamus was next and he did horrible. He didn't seem too upset that he had only stopped 3 quaffles.
Harry was surprised at the next person in line, and wondered how he hadn't spotted her before. It was Ginny. Harry watched her intently as she flew in and out of the goal post and then got in position as Katie Bell came speeding towards her and threw the quaffle hard towards the right goal post. Ginny dove, nearly falling off of her broom, and made the save. She ended up making 7 saves, the same as the tiny first year Jake.
The Gryffindor team got in a huddle and Katie was the first person to speak. "I think we should give it to Ginny as she is a 4th year. Jake can get a spot on the team when he is older." The rest of the team nodded in approval.
"So is it a unanimous?" Angelina asked looking at everyone as she spoke. No one contradicted her so she walked towards the candidates to announce their decision.
"Now you all did very well." Dean, who was standing with Seamus awaiting the team's verdict, snorted loudly. Seamus, looking indignant, punched him in the shoulder. Angelina waited until they were finished before speaking again. "But we can only pick one of you. So we decided on Ginny Weasley. Congratualtions! You are our new keeper!" Ginny gave a squeal of delight, while Jake's shoulders sagged and he looked disappointed. Harry felt bad for Jake, as he was very talented, but he had secretly wanted Ginny to get the position, though he wasn't sure why.
Later that night, Ginny told Ron the news, and he looked genuinely excited for her.
"Cool!" He grinned at Harry. "Maybe next year I can get on the team as chaser." Ron grinned. Fred soon joined the group.
"This calls for celebration!" Fred walked towards Harry and he wondered if he should run. But he didn't have to worry; Fred merely whispered in his ear, "George and I will get candy from Honeydukes. You know how to get in the kitchens don't you?" Harry nodded. "Good. Get some éclairs and cakes from the elves." Fred winked at him and Harry grinned.
Harry ran up to his dormitory to grab his invisibility cloak, as it was nearly 11 and he didn't think teachers would appreciate him roaming around the corridors this late. He made his way towards the entrance of the kitchens, but stopped when he heard voices. He followed the sound of the whispers and was surprised to see Dumbledore and Snape chatting quietly in an empty classroom. Harry heard snatches of their conversation.
"…didn't tell us where or when or how he was going to do it. He makes sure his followers don't know everything." Snape muttered and Harry could barely here him.
"But your sure, he said he was going to attack? Your positive?" Dumbledore asked Snape anxiously. Snape nodded. Dumbledore's shoulders sagged and Harry thought he looked older than ever before. Snape and Dumbledore made their way towards the door of the classroom where Harry was standing and he quickly started back on his way towards the kitchens. He got the cakes and éclairs Fred had requested and returned to Gryffindor. He joined normal conversation and ate cakes and Honeydukes candy with his friends for a half hour before feigning fatigue.
He went up to the dormitories, got into his pajamas, and lay in bed, thinking of the conversation he had heard. Snape had obviously been talking about Voldemort. He was attacking somewhere and wherever it was, Dumbledore had been sadder than Harry had ever seen him. Where was Voldemort going to attack? Why was everyone going to such great lengths to keep him and his friends out of it? Harry lay in bed for a long time stewing these questions over and over in his mind, wondering what Voldemort held in store for the Wizarding world.