Chapter 10 ~*~ Quidditch
There were some squeals of excitement that came from a group of fifth year Ravenclaw girls, before Dumbledore spoke again. "Unfortunately. All first years through third years will not be able to attend. Third years may go, if asked by an older student, but that is where I draw the line." Then he reseated himself and then reimbursed himself in conversation with Professor McGonagall.
"Oh great!" Sirius moaned as he sat on the couch in Gryffindor Common Room five minutes later.
"What? We are only eleven." James pointed out.
"Yeah, but now I have no reason to ask Alli." he stopped in mid- sentence as Allison sat down next to him, "Allisande the family owl to take a letter to my mum asking for new dress robes."
"Right Sirius." James said.
"Shut up." Sirius muttered under his breath.
"Right, well I think I'm going to go study some more." Allison said.
"Study my ass." Sirius muttered. "More like pay a visit to Hexes Forest."
"Excuse me?" Allison said raising an eyebrow.
"Allison. I know you're not really going to study." Sirius said looking at her.
"Well since you know me so well, than where was I going and what was I going to do?" Allison asked. Her eyes were almost flaming with anger as they flashed a deep purple.
"Woah! First of all, calm down." He said as he grabbed her wrists and pulled her back down to sit on the couch. "I hate it when your eyes get all glowy like that."
"They're glowing?" she asked.
"Not yet, but they will be soon if you don't calm down." Remus threw in.
"Alright." Allison said taking a deep breath.
"So will you stay in tonight?" Katie said with puppy dog eyes. "Please!"
"But I haven't seen Spark for a week!" Allison exclaimed. "You know? The bunny."
"See! I do know you well." Sirius said. "I told you you weren't going to study."
"So what if you were right?" Allison said. "It's not like you can stop me." And with that she stepped off toward the portrait hole.
"Is that a challenge?" Sirius asked.
"Figure it out, oh Great One." Allison said, stopping to look at Sirius and answer.
"Well." he said, now standing in front of her, "I take it as a yes."
Allison was about to protest, but Sirius grabbed her around the middle and draped her over his shoulder.
"SIRIUS BLACK! Put Me Down!" Allison screamed at him. Soon, the whole Common Room was watching.
"Nope. You'll just go to Hexes Forest, so I think I'll put you in your dorm, or maybe even ours." Sirius said smiling like his birthday had come early.
"Lily, James, help me out here! I really am going to study!"
"Sorry Allison. I completely agree with Sirius." Lily replied.
"So do I, and take her to her dorm. Ours is a mess." James replied.
"Can do James. You girls want to come and keep her from killing me?" Sirius asked. Allison had begun beating her fists into his back, but he didn't seem to notice.
"Sure." Katie said, shrugging her shoulders and striding over to the girls dormitory stairs. "You guys coming?"
"Alight," Lily replied before turning to face Hannah. "You coming Han?"
"I guess. G'night you guys." She said waving to James and Remus before following up the stairs.
"Night!" They both called back.
After about five minutes, Sirius returned rubbing his back. "Did you miss me?"
"Oh yes. We were crying at the thought of waiting for your return." Remus replied sarcastically.
"I take it she hits hard?" James said holding back a laugh.
"Nah, well, yeah actually, but I can take it." He said, pulling his hand down. " I'm going to bed now, I'll see you."
"We might as well also." Remus said joining him.
"Yeah, you're right." James said standing up.
So the three of them went off to their dorm leaving the Common Room empty.
"Come on Allison. You can't say that wasn't funny." Hannah said laughing. The girls were all grouped on Lily's bed.
"No it wasn't."
They all looked dumb struck at her comment. This was Allison Sears. The girl who found everything funny.
"It was hilarious." She continued, before bursting out laughing at the looks on the girls' faces.
"I hate when you do that!" Lily said.
"I know! Which makes it SO much better!" Allison laughed.
"She has a point." Katie threw in.
"I guess she does." Lily replied grimly.
Then Rebecca stormed in. "What are all you so happy about?" she snapped.
"Lots of things actually!" Allison replied. "Your absence for one."
Rebecca just glared at Allison before closing the curtains around her four-poster.
"Well I guess we should hit the sack. We do have Quidditch tomorrow. Well the afternoon practices at least." Hannah said, slipping into her four- poster.
"Yeah, you're right." Allison said before jumping into hers. "You two going to come and watch?"
"I am!" Katie replied.
"Yep!" Lily said before both of them jumped into their four posters.
They all said good night and fell asleep, but just before Hannah did so, she noticed the door slip open, and then closed again. "What the?" she mumbled to herself, before getting up and walking out the door. When she reached the bottom step, she immediately stopped at what she saw. James was sitting on a couch by the fire, when Sirius just materialized out of thin air. Hannah was surprised to see that James didn't jump, but soon found out why.
"So did you find anything out?" James asked.
"Nope. They didn't mention the kitchens or Hogsmeade once." Sirius replied sounding disappointed.
"Well I guess we'll try again some other time." James replied. "Yep. I guess so. I just hope Rebecca walks in like this time!" Sirius said with a huge grin. "It was great. Allison got her."
"Like what?" James asked. He was really curious as to what happened.
"Well when Rebecca came in she asked what they were so happy about and Allison said, 'a lot of things. Your absence for one.' Rebecca didn't have a come back, so she just glared." Sirius said cracking up. "H-her f-f- face!" He managed to get out.
"I see you find our lives amusing." Hannah said, stepping out of the stairway as she glared at them.
"Uh-oh." James said.
"Uh-oh is right. So how many times have you done that?" Hannah asked.
"What, sneak into your dorm? About once a week." Sirius replied, shrugging like it was no big deal.
Hannah just stood there and shook her head.
"What?" James asked.
"We would have told you if you had asked." She said before turning back to the stairs.
"Can you tell us now?" James asked.
"I can, but it doesn't mean I will." She replied.
"Will you then?" Sirius asked.
" I don't think so. You snuck into our dorm." She said, while proceeding up the stairs.
"Please!" James called after her, but she didn't answer, so the two boys traveled up to their dorm.
The next morning, everyone but Allison got up early, so they all decided to go to breakfast.
"You sure she's not coming?" Sirius asked, while looking up the stairs to the girls' dorms.
"Yeah, she said she wanted some more sleep. It was something about dreaming of werewolves, and her past. I think she had nightmares more than dreams." Katie replied.
"Oh." Was everyone's response.
"Wait. Didn't she have more than one like that before?" Lily asked. "I think it was like two, wasn't it?"
"Er.yeah, actually she did." Katie said quietly.
"Yeah, she said that the first one had something to do with this really old werewolf in the past. Somewhere around the mid-" but Hannah was cut off by someone.
"Hey guys!" Peter greeted them cheerfully. "Did I interrupt?"
"Nah Peter, it's okay." Remus answered with a forced smile. "What were you saying Hannah?"
"Oh, well now I can't really remember the time period, but I know the second one had you, and this one - I think - was more her since she said 'her past'. That's all I really can say though." She said with a sideways glance at Peter.
"Well they sound like normal dreams to me, so I say we just leave it." Remus replied, sitting down in his seat in the Great Hall.
"Same here." Sirius replied.
They all took their seats and chatted merrily for a good half hour, before deciding to return to the common room and bring Allison some breakfast. Halfway there, Peter separated from their group saying that he had a detention for knocking over a Slytherin's Cauldron in Thursday's Potions class.
They all proceeded up to the girls dorm, and once they clarified that Rebecca was gone, they let the boys in. While the boys placed themselves by the window, Katie and Hannah put the food on the table, and Lily went to wake Allison up.
"Allison?" No answer. "Allison!"
"Hmmm?" Allison half mumbled.
"Wake up. The guys are here and we brought breakfast."
"Alright Lils. I'm getting up." She said swinging her feet over the side of her bed. She walked over to her trunk and pulled out a pair of silver pants, and a t-shirt that had three-quarter length black sleeves, and the rest was a silver-white and black tiger pattern. When she got out of the bathroom she brushed her hair and left it down, and then walked over to where breakfast was on the table.
Allison noticed that Hannah also had on a tiger patterned shirt, but hers was strapless, and it was multicolored lime green, blue, and purple. Her jeans had the same green at the bottom. Katie had on blue jeans with a belt, and a black top where the straps crossed in the back. Lily had on black pants, and a green tube top that matched her eyes, but she also put on a t-shirt from her old volleyball team. The guys were all just wearing baggy jeans and a t-shirt.
"Alright. So who should I thank for my oh-so-special wake up call?" Allison asked, as she sat at the table piling her plate with food.
"Well, Hannah and Katie got the food, while Lily woke you up, and the three of us just came along." James replied.
"Alright." Allison said stuffing herself with even more food.
"A bit hungry Allison?" Sirius asked.
Allison took a break to sat two words, "Full Moon!" before going back to her food.
"Oh, I completely forgot!" Remus exclaimed jumping up and grabbing the extra plate. "Hope you don't mind Alli." He said before beginning to stuff himself as well.
"Nope. I'm full." She said leaning back in her chair.
"What's with eating so much, you two? You do this every time there's a full moon." Sirius said.
Remus finished off the last bit of food and they both answered, "energy."
"Right." James said, but he sounded a bit confused.
"You should see Allison over the summer. Her mom makes her at least seven meals the day of the full moon, and she still eats other snacks through out the day." Katie said and Allison just smiled.
"Well I'm not to far behind her." Remus said grinning.
"Pig." Allison said.
"Cow." Remus threw back.
"Why thank you!" Allison said.
"Huh?" Remus was confused.
"Just look at this." Hannah said, pulling out a box from Allison's trunk. It had all sorts of items. Most said the same thing or went with it. "I LOVE COWS!" Hannah said. "This was and still is Allison's theme, so naturally your remark was a complement." Hannah said flashing a smile.
Katie just burst out laughing at the looks on the boys' faces, as Hannah put the box away. Soon Lily and Hannah joined in and Allison just continued to smile.
After a good five minutes Allison decided to break the laughter. "Shall we head down to the Quidditch pitch?"
"S-sure, why n-not!" Lily replied, trying to calm down.
By the time they all reached the pitch it was a quarter till six, and Allison, Katie, and Hannah had all gotten back into talking about the past Quidditch days.
"Yeah, and Hannah got MVP-C twice." Allison said.
"And Katie got MVP-K twice as well." Hannah said.
"So you're both pretty good then?" Remus asked. "How come your broom wouldn't come up then, Katie?"
"I tend to have trouble with brooms that aren't my own, which is why I couldn't tell the broom to come up. I have no problem flying others, it's just the up part."
"Oh." Remus said. "Well we're here."
"Bye you guys." Lily said as she and Katie made their way over to the stands.
There were about twenty-five first years there total from varying houses. They all practiced the positions they wanted for the first hour, and everyone could tell that if all five Gryffindors made the house team, they would be almost unbeatable. For the next half hour they all ate dinner in the stands with Lily and Katie, and then just as the five of them were headed back to the pitch, Remus elbowed Allison in the side.
"We got to get going. It's already half past seven." He told her.
"Oh, and I was having fun to." She said, putting on a pouty face.
Remus laughed a little before he replied. "Same here, but come on." He pointed over to Madam Palka, who was standing near the entrance talking to Madam Elsis.
"Bye! Have fun without us!" Allison half shouted.
"Oh don't worry, we will!" Sirius shouted.
"Oh, I love you to, Sirius." She said jokingly.
"Really?" he said, "Well in that case, let me share my undying love for you."
Sirius got down and one knee, pretending to propose.
Allison's eyes grew wide. "Why Sirius! Yes! How could I say no to you!"
With that, she ran aver to him and engulfed him in a hug, before kissing him on the cheek. Sirius started talking to James while Allison ran over to Hannah and they both began looking at her hand as if there was an engagement ring on it. Everyone started to laugh at this little performance, including the Slytherins, so naturally Allison and Sirius linked hands and bowed. Then Allison left with Remus, blowing kisses to the crowed, and acting like one of the runway models she had seen on TV.
"That was quite a performance you two put on." Madam Elsis told her. Both Allison and Remus noticed a small smile creeping onto her face.
"Thank you!" Allison said proudly.
"I'm aware of the circumstances and the two of you are free to leave." She said, before heading back to the pitch again.
"Thank you again." Remus said, and then Madam Palka led him and Allison to the Whomping Willow, where they proceeded to the Shrieking Shack. Katie, Hannah, and Lily spent most of their time in the common room that weekend, while the boys were either pulling pranks or serving detention.
There were some squeals of excitement that came from a group of fifth year Ravenclaw girls, before Dumbledore spoke again. "Unfortunately. All first years through third years will not be able to attend. Third years may go, if asked by an older student, but that is where I draw the line." Then he reseated himself and then reimbursed himself in conversation with Professor McGonagall.
"Oh great!" Sirius moaned as he sat on the couch in Gryffindor Common Room five minutes later.
"What? We are only eleven." James pointed out.
"Yeah, but now I have no reason to ask Alli." he stopped in mid- sentence as Allison sat down next to him, "Allisande the family owl to take a letter to my mum asking for new dress robes."
"Right Sirius." James said.
"Shut up." Sirius muttered under his breath.
"Right, well I think I'm going to go study some more." Allison said.
"Study my ass." Sirius muttered. "More like pay a visit to Hexes Forest."
"Excuse me?" Allison said raising an eyebrow.
"Allison. I know you're not really going to study." Sirius said looking at her.
"Well since you know me so well, than where was I going and what was I going to do?" Allison asked. Her eyes were almost flaming with anger as they flashed a deep purple.
"Woah! First of all, calm down." He said as he grabbed her wrists and pulled her back down to sit on the couch. "I hate it when your eyes get all glowy like that."
"They're glowing?" she asked.
"Not yet, but they will be soon if you don't calm down." Remus threw in.
"Alright." Allison said taking a deep breath.
"So will you stay in tonight?" Katie said with puppy dog eyes. "Please!"
"But I haven't seen Spark for a week!" Allison exclaimed. "You know? The bunny."
"See! I do know you well." Sirius said. "I told you you weren't going to study."
"So what if you were right?" Allison said. "It's not like you can stop me." And with that she stepped off toward the portrait hole.
"Is that a challenge?" Sirius asked.
"Figure it out, oh Great One." Allison said, stopping to look at Sirius and answer.
"Well." he said, now standing in front of her, "I take it as a yes."
Allison was about to protest, but Sirius grabbed her around the middle and draped her over his shoulder.
"SIRIUS BLACK! Put Me Down!" Allison screamed at him. Soon, the whole Common Room was watching.
"Nope. You'll just go to Hexes Forest, so I think I'll put you in your dorm, or maybe even ours." Sirius said smiling like his birthday had come early.
"Lily, James, help me out here! I really am going to study!"
"Sorry Allison. I completely agree with Sirius." Lily replied.
"So do I, and take her to her dorm. Ours is a mess." James replied.
"Can do James. You girls want to come and keep her from killing me?" Sirius asked. Allison had begun beating her fists into his back, but he didn't seem to notice.
"Sure." Katie said, shrugging her shoulders and striding over to the girls dormitory stairs. "You guys coming?"
"Alight," Lily replied before turning to face Hannah. "You coming Han?"
"I guess. G'night you guys." She said waving to James and Remus before following up the stairs.
"Night!" They both called back.
After about five minutes, Sirius returned rubbing his back. "Did you miss me?"
"Oh yes. We were crying at the thought of waiting for your return." Remus replied sarcastically.
"I take it she hits hard?" James said holding back a laugh.
"Nah, well, yeah actually, but I can take it." He said, pulling his hand down. " I'm going to bed now, I'll see you."
"We might as well also." Remus said joining him.
"Yeah, you're right." James said standing up.
So the three of them went off to their dorm leaving the Common Room empty.
"Come on Allison. You can't say that wasn't funny." Hannah said laughing. The girls were all grouped on Lily's bed.
"No it wasn't."
They all looked dumb struck at her comment. This was Allison Sears. The girl who found everything funny.
"It was hilarious." She continued, before bursting out laughing at the looks on the girls' faces.
"I hate when you do that!" Lily said.
"I know! Which makes it SO much better!" Allison laughed.
"She has a point." Katie threw in.
"I guess she does." Lily replied grimly.
Then Rebecca stormed in. "What are all you so happy about?" she snapped.
"Lots of things actually!" Allison replied. "Your absence for one."
Rebecca just glared at Allison before closing the curtains around her four-poster.
"Well I guess we should hit the sack. We do have Quidditch tomorrow. Well the afternoon practices at least." Hannah said, slipping into her four- poster.
"Yeah, you're right." Allison said before jumping into hers. "You two going to come and watch?"
"I am!" Katie replied.
"Yep!" Lily said before both of them jumped into their four posters.
They all said good night and fell asleep, but just before Hannah did so, she noticed the door slip open, and then closed again. "What the?" she mumbled to herself, before getting up and walking out the door. When she reached the bottom step, she immediately stopped at what she saw. James was sitting on a couch by the fire, when Sirius just materialized out of thin air. Hannah was surprised to see that James didn't jump, but soon found out why.
"So did you find anything out?" James asked.
"Nope. They didn't mention the kitchens or Hogsmeade once." Sirius replied sounding disappointed.
"Well I guess we'll try again some other time." James replied. "Yep. I guess so. I just hope Rebecca walks in like this time!" Sirius said with a huge grin. "It was great. Allison got her."
"Like what?" James asked. He was really curious as to what happened.
"Well when Rebecca came in she asked what they were so happy about and Allison said, 'a lot of things. Your absence for one.' Rebecca didn't have a come back, so she just glared." Sirius said cracking up. "H-her f-f- face!" He managed to get out.
"I see you find our lives amusing." Hannah said, stepping out of the stairway as she glared at them.
"Uh-oh." James said.
"Uh-oh is right. So how many times have you done that?" Hannah asked.
"What, sneak into your dorm? About once a week." Sirius replied, shrugging like it was no big deal.
Hannah just stood there and shook her head.
"What?" James asked.
"We would have told you if you had asked." She said before turning back to the stairs.
"Can you tell us now?" James asked.
"I can, but it doesn't mean I will." She replied.
"Will you then?" Sirius asked.
" I don't think so. You snuck into our dorm." She said, while proceeding up the stairs.
"Please!" James called after her, but she didn't answer, so the two boys traveled up to their dorm.
The next morning, everyone but Allison got up early, so they all decided to go to breakfast.
"You sure she's not coming?" Sirius asked, while looking up the stairs to the girls' dorms.
"Yeah, she said she wanted some more sleep. It was something about dreaming of werewolves, and her past. I think she had nightmares more than dreams." Katie replied.
"Oh." Was everyone's response.
"Wait. Didn't she have more than one like that before?" Lily asked. "I think it was like two, wasn't it?"
"Er.yeah, actually she did." Katie said quietly.
"Yeah, she said that the first one had something to do with this really old werewolf in the past. Somewhere around the mid-" but Hannah was cut off by someone.
"Hey guys!" Peter greeted them cheerfully. "Did I interrupt?"
"Nah Peter, it's okay." Remus answered with a forced smile. "What were you saying Hannah?"
"Oh, well now I can't really remember the time period, but I know the second one had you, and this one - I think - was more her since she said 'her past'. That's all I really can say though." She said with a sideways glance at Peter.
"Well they sound like normal dreams to me, so I say we just leave it." Remus replied, sitting down in his seat in the Great Hall.
"Same here." Sirius replied.
They all took their seats and chatted merrily for a good half hour, before deciding to return to the common room and bring Allison some breakfast. Halfway there, Peter separated from their group saying that he had a detention for knocking over a Slytherin's Cauldron in Thursday's Potions class.
They all proceeded up to the girls dorm, and once they clarified that Rebecca was gone, they let the boys in. While the boys placed themselves by the window, Katie and Hannah put the food on the table, and Lily went to wake Allison up.
"Allison?" No answer. "Allison!"
"Hmmm?" Allison half mumbled.
"Wake up. The guys are here and we brought breakfast."
"Alright Lils. I'm getting up." She said swinging her feet over the side of her bed. She walked over to her trunk and pulled out a pair of silver pants, and a t-shirt that had three-quarter length black sleeves, and the rest was a silver-white and black tiger pattern. When she got out of the bathroom she brushed her hair and left it down, and then walked over to where breakfast was on the table.
Allison noticed that Hannah also had on a tiger patterned shirt, but hers was strapless, and it was multicolored lime green, blue, and purple. Her jeans had the same green at the bottom. Katie had on blue jeans with a belt, and a black top where the straps crossed in the back. Lily had on black pants, and a green tube top that matched her eyes, but she also put on a t-shirt from her old volleyball team. The guys were all just wearing baggy jeans and a t-shirt.
"Alright. So who should I thank for my oh-so-special wake up call?" Allison asked, as she sat at the table piling her plate with food.
"Well, Hannah and Katie got the food, while Lily woke you up, and the three of us just came along." James replied.
"Alright." Allison said stuffing herself with even more food.
"A bit hungry Allison?" Sirius asked.
Allison took a break to sat two words, "Full Moon!" before going back to her food.
"Oh, I completely forgot!" Remus exclaimed jumping up and grabbing the extra plate. "Hope you don't mind Alli." He said before beginning to stuff himself as well.
"Nope. I'm full." She said leaning back in her chair.
"What's with eating so much, you two? You do this every time there's a full moon." Sirius said.
Remus finished off the last bit of food and they both answered, "energy."
"Right." James said, but he sounded a bit confused.
"You should see Allison over the summer. Her mom makes her at least seven meals the day of the full moon, and she still eats other snacks through out the day." Katie said and Allison just smiled.
"Well I'm not to far behind her." Remus said grinning.
"Pig." Allison said.
"Cow." Remus threw back.
"Why thank you!" Allison said.
"Huh?" Remus was confused.
"Just look at this." Hannah said, pulling out a box from Allison's trunk. It had all sorts of items. Most said the same thing or went with it. "I LOVE COWS!" Hannah said. "This was and still is Allison's theme, so naturally your remark was a complement." Hannah said flashing a smile.
Katie just burst out laughing at the looks on the boys' faces, as Hannah put the box away. Soon Lily and Hannah joined in and Allison just continued to smile.
After a good five minutes Allison decided to break the laughter. "Shall we head down to the Quidditch pitch?"
"S-sure, why n-not!" Lily replied, trying to calm down.
By the time they all reached the pitch it was a quarter till six, and Allison, Katie, and Hannah had all gotten back into talking about the past Quidditch days.
"Yeah, and Hannah got MVP-C twice." Allison said.
"And Katie got MVP-K twice as well." Hannah said.
"So you're both pretty good then?" Remus asked. "How come your broom wouldn't come up then, Katie?"
"I tend to have trouble with brooms that aren't my own, which is why I couldn't tell the broom to come up. I have no problem flying others, it's just the up part."
"Oh." Remus said. "Well we're here."
"Bye you guys." Lily said as she and Katie made their way over to the stands.
There were about twenty-five first years there total from varying houses. They all practiced the positions they wanted for the first hour, and everyone could tell that if all five Gryffindors made the house team, they would be almost unbeatable. For the next half hour they all ate dinner in the stands with Lily and Katie, and then just as the five of them were headed back to the pitch, Remus elbowed Allison in the side.
"We got to get going. It's already half past seven." He told her.
"Oh, and I was having fun to." She said, putting on a pouty face.
Remus laughed a little before he replied. "Same here, but come on." He pointed over to Madam Palka, who was standing near the entrance talking to Madam Elsis.
"Bye! Have fun without us!" Allison half shouted.
"Oh don't worry, we will!" Sirius shouted.
"Oh, I love you to, Sirius." She said jokingly.
"Really?" he said, "Well in that case, let me share my undying love for you."
Sirius got down and one knee, pretending to propose.
Allison's eyes grew wide. "Why Sirius! Yes! How could I say no to you!"
With that, she ran aver to him and engulfed him in a hug, before kissing him on the cheek. Sirius started talking to James while Allison ran over to Hannah and they both began looking at her hand as if there was an engagement ring on it. Everyone started to laugh at this little performance, including the Slytherins, so naturally Allison and Sirius linked hands and bowed. Then Allison left with Remus, blowing kisses to the crowed, and acting like one of the runway models she had seen on TV.
"That was quite a performance you two put on." Madam Elsis told her. Both Allison and Remus noticed a small smile creeping onto her face.
"Thank you!" Allison said proudly.
"I'm aware of the circumstances and the two of you are free to leave." She said, before heading back to the pitch again.
"Thank you again." Remus said, and then Madam Palka led him and Allison to the Whomping Willow, where they proceeded to the Shrieking Shack. Katie, Hannah, and Lily spent most of their time in the common room that weekend, while the boys were either pulling pranks or serving detention.