Chapter Five – Back to Hogwarts
Upon their rather nasty flooing experience, which resulted with James landing upon Lily, James took a look around. They were in Dumbledore's office; James knew that from the many times he had visited with the other members of the Marauders in order to receive punishment for many various pranks. It was worth it though…James thought as he helped Lily up from her rather uncomfortable position on the ground. James could see that Lily was taking it all in too, her eyes darting all around the room, which was indeed a fine sight.
There was everything in Dumbledore's office. Everything. It looked like he had made a collection of interesting artifacts from the past six centuries and decided to place it in a museum, the museum also being his living quarters. The inhabitant of the office himself came out, and said
"Ms. Evans, Mr. Potter, it's good to see you. I trust that you traveled well?" he said the last part as if it were a question.
"Well, almost," grinned James, not really sure of what to say. "Oh, yeah," he thought. "It's my first day on the newest, most important job of my life at the moment and I've just had thirty seconds with the person I'm supposed to be protecting and I squashed her. That'll go down well." James didn't like flooing very much.
Dumbledore smiled, and said "Well, I'm sure you'll get used to it after taking day trips to the hospital." James had an expression of utmost horror on his face. Quickly glancing at Lily, his mouth gaped open. Did she have a flicker of a smile upon her face?
"You may now join the students for lunch," Dumbledore spoke again. "I trust you would not want to miss out on one of the most important parts of your day."
~*~In The Great Hall~*~
Tuning out to Sirius' incessant banter about how they should "mickeywave" Mrs. Norris, James looked at Lily. She certainly seemed a lot happier than when she had on her first day. The remainder of the school barely noticed her return. She tried as hard as possible for that to happen, of course. James wondered how she would cope with classes that afternoon.
Hey, James," said Sirius, nudging him in the side. James contributed to the conversation with an intelligent "huh?" before Sirius launched into the next topic of conversation: Quidditch.
"Whatddaya think our chances are of winning this game, Jamesie-poo?" There was an upcoming match against Ravenclaw that weekend. Today was Tuesday.
"We'll flatten them, I reckon," replied James confidently. James, although only in fourth year, was a star chaser and captain of the Gryffindor team. He was a hero for Gryffindor, and he knew it. He loved flying. James, Sirius and Remus were all on the Gryffindor side; Sirius was a beater and Remus, with his sharp eyesight and keen instincts, was a seeker.
"James, James!" Justin Spinnet ran up to him. "Lucy's in the hospital wing – unconscious!"
James, Sirius and Remus gave a collective gasp of horror. Lucy was Sirius' fellow beater (Sirius loved having a girl working with him), and if she was unconscious…then the game on Saturday…suddenly James didn't feel so confident.
"We need to find a replacement," he said, stating the obvious. "I'll go to McGonagall and hold tryouts in case she's not well again in time.
James ran off, dragging a reluctantly, and only on the way to McGonagall did it occur to him to ask just how Lucy got unconscious.
A/N: Short I know. I'm sorry!
Just to clear this up – I've made James a chaser, not a seeker, even though in the movie he was a seeker, I've decided to go with J.K. and make him a chaser.
