Disclaimer: not mine :)
A/N: Hey, thanx for all reviews *grins madly at the computer screen*. This chapter is all thanx to Ali, my wonderful beta *waves*, for laughing at all my Quidditch mistakes, and scrambling through the books to prove me wrong, so yes Lily's mistakes are the one's I made *hides head in shame*, and I call myself an obsessive…
Summary: It's Quidditch match time! Despite the fact I promised myself I wouldn't write anything to do with Quidditch because it's just so brilliant in the book that anything I wrote would be appalling. Darn characters have a mind of their own!
CHAPTER 6
That Saturday morning Lily got up determined to start the preparations to put their plan in to action. Fee gawped at her when she told them what she was planning to do. "You're not coming to watch me play?" Fee asked, pouting slightly.
"Come on Fee, you're bound to win. It's only Hufflepuff," Lily wheedled hopefully,
"I'm coming," Bella said, grinning. "Diggory's a fox," she added pretending to swoon.
"So let me get this straight," Fee said irritated, "neither of you are coming to watch Gryffindor play?" She pulled her puppy-dog face.
"Ugh!" Lily said throwing her hands in the air. "Fine… but … promise you'll hit the Bludger at James or Sirius?" Lily pleaded.
"You want me to attack my own team!" Fee asked in mock-horror.
"You managed it last time," Arabella pointed out with a grin.
"Sirius started it!" Fee protested. "I have no idea why anyone would let him play beater," Fee continued, shaking her head: "He almost took my arm off!"
"Maybe it's because the captain and chaser-extraordinaire just happens to be his best friend?" Lily suggested.
~*~*~*~*~
"Ok team," James said, "don't treat Hufflepuff lightly, they've got a new seeker and we don't know what she can do."
"Your spies failed you, Jamesie?" Fee asked mockingly.
James glared at her. "Shut up Jones, you're in enough trouble as it is. I don't even know why I'm letting you play," he said.
Fee grinned. "Because I'm the only good beater you've got," she said, sticking her tongue out at Sirius, who snorted with laughter.
"Just don't start beating the hell out of each other like last time," James said warningly.
"But I promised… a certain person that I would…. let's just call her… your fiancée," Fee said grinning.
"Right that's it," James growled. "You're not playing, Hartley can play instead."
"What!?" Fee asked shocked. "You can't do that!" she said panicked.
"Then shut up!" James said grinning. Fee's eyes narrowed. She turned to see Sirius sticking his tongue out at her.
~*~*~*~*~
"And Gryffindor have the Quaffle!" Penny Heppleworth, a ditzy Hufflepuff, commentated. "It's quite a team the Gryffindors have this year, James Potter is certainly a great improvement. Roulash definitely made the right choice in appointing him team captain," Penny finished with a sigh, causing Bella and Lily, in the stands, to snort with laughter at the girl's obvious crush. Professor McGonagall, the transfiguration teacher, leant down to nudge the girl out of her stupor, muttering something angrily that made Penny sit up straight and focus on the game.
"0 – 90 to Gryffindor," Penny cried out morosely, she only seemed to cheer up when she added: "That penalty was scored by Jaaaaames Potter!" From her seat Lily rolled her eyes.
"Fee's doing well isn't she?" Bella said to Lily,
"Hasn't had much to do though, our chasers aren't letting Hufflepuff have the Quaffle at all," Lily pointed out.
"You have to admit, James is brilliant at Quidditch though. It looks like he's planning to secure a win for Gryffindor no matter who gets the snitch!" Bella said grinning.
Lily rolled her eyes. "He is totally stealing the limelight," she muttered
Bella giggled, "I think it's called 'dominating the match'."
Lily smiled slightly. "He's going to have major problems if he doesn't give Fee and Sirius something to do soon. They look really bored up there."
"Great," Bella said sarcastically. "They're going to start attacking each other, aren't they?" Causing both Lily and herself to grin and stare expectantly at the Gryffindor beaters.
~*~*~*~*~
James' eyes darted over the pitch, it was a complete walk-over. They only need one more goal to secure a win, Hufflepuff hadn't even scored yet. He grinned to himself; their keeper was a new find of his this year. He glanced over to the stands and noticed Lily staring avidly at the other end of the pitch. He turned around to see what had caught her attention, his eyes narrowed as he saw exactly what was so amusing.
~*~*~*~*~
Sirius saw the Bludger flying towards him, and a huge grin spread over his face. Time to liven things up, he thought, lifting his bat. The Bludger whizzed past the side of Fee's head, she ducked only to lose her balance. She hurtled after it, upside down, swinging her bat to send the Bludger flying back over to the Hufflepuff chasers. Righting herself she saw Sirius having hysterics. "See the amazing flying Fee," he yelled at her. "Having trouble controlling your broom?"
Fee's eyes narrowed. "You swung that at me deliberately didn't you?" she demanded,
"Oops," Sirius offered shrugging.
"You are a complete moron!" she yelled. "You almost had me off the broom." Both were so busy arguing that they hadn't realised that the whole game had stopped to watch them.
"You idiot," Fee yelled, lobbing her bat at him.
"FEE!" Penny shrieked. "You'll injure his handsome face!" she continued, sounding appalled. Prof. McGonagall could be heard yelling at her to commentate on the game, not the boys. , At Penny's words Fee almost fell off her broom laughing. James hastily signaled a time out and called the Gryffindor team down to the ground, all the while glaring at Sirius and Fee.
~*~*~*~*~
"What in God's name has got into the both of you," James demanded as soon as they were on the ground. Fee smiled sheepishly, as she bent down to retrieve her bat. "You could have lost us the game!"
"Er... James?" Ernie said from the back of the team.
"Not to mention she could have taken out my eye!" Sirius cried indignantly,
"Only because you hit the Bludger at her in the first place!" James bellowed. "You were both meant to be concentrating on the game, you idiots don't deserve to be on this team."
Lily and Bella arrived on the field to hear James yelling at Sirius and Fee. Fuming, Lily marched up to James. "You know they're the best beaters in Gryffindor by a long way," she yelled at him. "They've had nothing to do all match because you've let no-one else have the ball."
"James?" Ernie started again, only to be completely ignored,
"It's a Quaffle, you idiot," James roared at her, "What the hell do you know about Quidditch any way, I've never even seen you fly! Get off the pitch!"
"Who made you queen of the Quidditch field?" Lily shouted.
"Shut up Medusa!" James retorted, "Don't tell me what to do! We need to win this match, otherwise we have no chance at winning the cup."
"You are winning 150-0," Lily screamed in exasperation,
"It would only be a draw you half-wit! We need-"
"James!" Ernie bellowed, Lily and James turned angrily towards him. "I got the snitch," Ernie said, waving it vaguely in the air.
"We won!" Fee screamed, grinning from ear to ear. The whole Gryffindor team suddenly converged in an ecstatic heap around Ernie.
A bemused Prof. McGonagall announced to the stadium: "Gryffindor wins!" Finally the spectators seem to realise what had happened and the stadium erupted in cheers, while the Hufflepuffs groaned.
