The End of their First Year
The year was almost over; their first year at Hogwarts was almost over, before it had even started. The end of year exams were in full swing, so James, Sirius and Peter had to put their animal flights of fancy on hold until afterward, which they know then they will only have a couple of days before they had to go back home; but they can always do more resource there and then start again in September.
It was there second to last exam finally, which quite a few people had been looking forward too; which sounds strange for an exam. But if you liked flying, then you would love this exam; you get to show off how much you have learnt throughout the whole year.
Sirius was stood with James and Remus and Peter talking about how badly Peter had just done, well not as bad as some. Sirius had already done his and hadn't done to badly, though Remus was still waiting.
Nissa flew back down to the ground as graceful as a bird; the Gryffindor's applauded as she had just scored a perfect score. It was James next and everyone excepted him to do the same.
"Good luck." Nissa told him as he walked passed her; he smiled and then mounted his broom.
James flew up into the air, swirling in and out of the hovering beacon's, and then moved onto the second part of the course but just as he was about to start his broom wouldn't go forward instead it started to go backwards.
"Doesn't he know that its forward, not backwards?" Ludovic shouted, as the Slytherin's laughed at him.
His broom started to buck him off, but James kept a tight grip not wanting to fall off, he had never fallen off a broom and didn't want to start now right in front of everyone he didn't want to be while this was happening.
His broom dived suddenly making everyone gasp; it was still trying to buck him off. He was heading back down to the ground at top speed, he didn't want to crash either he would rather jump then crash; so when he was a couple of metre's off the ground he jumped but at the same time as the broom tried one last time to buck him. Which meant that he came flying off and hitting his face hard on the solid ground, his face hurt like it had never hurt before he wondered if he had broken his nose though he didn't want to look up at everyone who was running over to see if he was alright.
He could hear people asking if he was alright, but the only one which stood out to him was Lily's voice.
"Oh, I do hope he's alright." Lily said to Nissa and Ella stood either side of her.
And then looked up slightly and saw his best mates in front of everyone, he felt like dieing, but then he made out Lily again who looked really concerned for him which made him feel better; did she like him?
Madam Lani came running passed everyone and knelt beside James, who slowly sat up not looking at the crowd of people stood around him. There was blood dipping down his face, as Sirius came over and helped him to his feet. Both Sirius and James saw Snivellus and Lestrange smiling and knew it had to be them 'this was war!'
"Are you alright Potter?" Lani asked him quit concerned.
James didn't say anything only grabbed a fist full of his robes to hold his bleeding nose.
"I'll take him up to the hospital wing." Sirius told her starting to walk off with him.
"I'll come with you as well." Remus offered.
"No you won't Mr Lupin you haven't done your exam yet." Lani told him. "But yes, you can take him up Mr Black."
They walked off together, with Sirius helping James to walk because his legs seemed a little un-stabled, only when they were out of ear shot of the rest of the class did they talk about what happened.
"It was Snape and Lestrange." James told him through his robes.
"I know I saw the look on their faces." Sirius said angrily. "They're not going to get away with this."
Later that day James was feeling much better and went looking for Madam Lani about his flying exam, she agreed with him that he couldn't do it over but she would mark him off his flying during the year; so with that he should still get a very good mark, not as good as he should have got though.
***
The exams were finally over and it was Saturday morning, the morning of the Quidditch final between Gryffindor and Slytherin, everyone made their way down to the stadium.
"I so prefer to just watch other people to fly then to do it myself." Ella told them as they sat down.
"It's the whole point about being a witch, well one of them being able to fly on a broomstick." Lily told her, she had quite got the hang of it and quite enjoyed it as well now.
"Well said Lil's." James said sitting down behind them.
They all turned round at the sound of his voice, he seemed a lot happier then he had done since the exam.
"For what I heard you were robbed mate." Nathan Rutledge told him, who was in Ravenclaw.
"We're working on it." James told them all mysteries, which told them all that they were up to something but none of them asked because the two teams flew out over the stadium.
Slytherin was playing dirty, because they knew that they weren't going to win, so they were going to do as much damage as possible. Fifteen minutes of gaol scoring only by Gryffindor's, so the score was 60-0, Slytherin had really taken up attacking them bludgers flying everywhere as though there were more then just the two out there, but Slytherin was the only ones getting their hands on them.
Tom Falkner was flying over head looking for the snitch and trying to stay away from the bludgers, when he spotted it. He dived; the two Slytherin beaters saw what he was doing and plated both bludgers at him. He was hit hard in the face and the chest which sent him falling and landed in the stands unconscious.
"Those bastards, that's way out of line!" James shouted as they ran down the benches to where he was laying.
"Is he alive?" Natalie asked them.
"Yeah just knocked out." James answered.
Michael Fuller the Gryffindor captain came flying over head and hovered just above them all.
"He's out cold." James told him taking hold of Tom's broomstick.
"Damn! We haven't got a reserve." Michael said.
"I can fly." James said hopefully.
They all looked at him, half the girls looked scared out of their minds at the idea of him flying, and the others quite impressed and dreamily at him, the lads thought it was quite bold but was fully behind him.
Michael was thinking it over, he knew there was no one else, and without a Secker they would lose so he nodded slowly.
"Good one mate." Remus said.
"Kick their asses!" Sirius shouted to him as he flew off to cheers, and some boo's from the Slytherin stand.
"Oh I do hope he's going to be ok." Lily said to Nissa.
"What about Tom though?" Natalie asked.
Nissa looked over at him taking her eyes off the game and missing James pulling off a brilliant move by missing a bludger attack. She jumped over the seats surprising them all and pulled off her robes and folded them up and then bent down and put them underneath his head and then turned back watching the game like everyone else around them.
"Come on James!" Sirius shouted.
"That was a close one." Remus said, with Peter covering his eyes every couple of seconds.
"He's going to be killed." Ella said.
"Course he isn't." Sirius told her though didn't take his eyes off of him.
Slytherin had scored and was catching up; James needed to catch the snitch for Gryffindor to win. James flew in and out of the other players as though he belonged up there, the Slytherin's gunning for him the whole time.
"There! There's the snitch!" Nissa shouted jumping up and down, as she hit Sirius on the arm pointing it out to him.
"I don't see anything." Sirius told her irritability. "I think you're seeing things."
James dived to where Nissa had been pointing at.
"He's found it!" Sirius roared.
James dived but Flinton the Slytherin Secker was too far behind to catch him now, but their beater wasn't and neither was their chaser. He swirled out of their way as they came speeding towards, but they couldn't pull up in time and crushed into one another; as James flew on inches away.
He reached out and grabbed it.
The crowd went wild, Gryffindor's, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff's were all screaming for them, because of course none of them had wanted Slytherin to win. The team came flying over the two girls both hugged him, and they made their way to the ground in disarray.
"He court it, we've won!" Nissa shouted, and then she lunged forward and hugged Sirius tightly smiling. "We won."
"We won!" The girls were screaming and hugging one another.
Sirius was so taken back that it took him a moment to realise that she was hugging him before he hugged her back both of them jumping up and down.
Everyone started to make their way down to the pitch, cheering and waving their bender's as they ran over to the team and almost lost them in the mass of crowd around them.
Sirius and Remus made their way through the crowd to their best mate, Peter keeping close behind them; as was Nissa with all her friends as well.
"You were brilliant mate!" Sirius shouted at him clapping him on the back.
"Oh you were, it would be an outrage if they didn't let you play next year." Nissa told him excitedly holding Sirius' arm, which no one noticed only him.
He thought that Gryffindor wasn't the only ones to win something today, he had also won Nissa as well, (which he thought was a much better prize).
They made their way back up to the castle and up to the Gryffindor common room, where they celebrated all night and into the early hours of the morning which at 2 o'clock Professor McGonagall had to come up and finally told them to all go to bed.
***
It was the leaving feast; everyone was making their way down to the great hall, their last meal at Hogwarts before they went home for the summer. The Slytherin's were in a mood bad they had been since they were hammered in the final, but the rest of the school was celebrating Gryffindor had won the Quidditch Cup and the Interhouse Cup as well.
"We'll have to write, so you can come over for the summer." James was telling them again as they sat down at the Gryffindor table, and shaking hands with a dozen people which he didn't know by name only by face.
"Brilliant."
"New Seeker for sure."
James smiled as he sat down, as was Sirius who was sat next to Nissa; though she hadn't done anything since the match and wasn't worried, because he just thought that she didn't want everyone knowing.
"Yeah course, this summers going to be great." Remus said. "Just you know."
"Of course." Sirius said waving his hand and grabbing a couple of chicken legs and filling his plate and started to eat.
"Anyone would think that he had never eaten before." James teased, as Sirius started eating everything insight well in arms length.
They were on the train going home, a whole year had passed and now they were going home, well until next September.
(A/N:- I know that I ended it suddenly, but if you want their to be another story of their second year you know what to do. There will be more Quidditch, exploring, pranks and a lot more beside; you might even meet Sirius' family if you continue to read the next story.
The year was almost over; their first year at Hogwarts was almost over, before it had even started. The end of year exams were in full swing, so James, Sirius and Peter had to put their animal flights of fancy on hold until afterward, which they know then they will only have a couple of days before they had to go back home; but they can always do more resource there and then start again in September.
It was there second to last exam finally, which quite a few people had been looking forward too; which sounds strange for an exam. But if you liked flying, then you would love this exam; you get to show off how much you have learnt throughout the whole year.
Sirius was stood with James and Remus and Peter talking about how badly Peter had just done, well not as bad as some. Sirius had already done his and hadn't done to badly, though Remus was still waiting.
Nissa flew back down to the ground as graceful as a bird; the Gryffindor's applauded as she had just scored a perfect score. It was James next and everyone excepted him to do the same.
"Good luck." Nissa told him as he walked passed her; he smiled and then mounted his broom.
James flew up into the air, swirling in and out of the hovering beacon's, and then moved onto the second part of the course but just as he was about to start his broom wouldn't go forward instead it started to go backwards.
"Doesn't he know that its forward, not backwards?" Ludovic shouted, as the Slytherin's laughed at him.
His broom started to buck him off, but James kept a tight grip not wanting to fall off, he had never fallen off a broom and didn't want to start now right in front of everyone he didn't want to be while this was happening.
His broom dived suddenly making everyone gasp; it was still trying to buck him off. He was heading back down to the ground at top speed, he didn't want to crash either he would rather jump then crash; so when he was a couple of metre's off the ground he jumped but at the same time as the broom tried one last time to buck him. Which meant that he came flying off and hitting his face hard on the solid ground, his face hurt like it had never hurt before he wondered if he had broken his nose though he didn't want to look up at everyone who was running over to see if he was alright.
He could hear people asking if he was alright, but the only one which stood out to him was Lily's voice.
"Oh, I do hope he's alright." Lily said to Nissa and Ella stood either side of her.
And then looked up slightly and saw his best mates in front of everyone, he felt like dieing, but then he made out Lily again who looked really concerned for him which made him feel better; did she like him?
Madam Lani came running passed everyone and knelt beside James, who slowly sat up not looking at the crowd of people stood around him. There was blood dipping down his face, as Sirius came over and helped him to his feet. Both Sirius and James saw Snivellus and Lestrange smiling and knew it had to be them 'this was war!'
"Are you alright Potter?" Lani asked him quit concerned.
James didn't say anything only grabbed a fist full of his robes to hold his bleeding nose.
"I'll take him up to the hospital wing." Sirius told her starting to walk off with him.
"I'll come with you as well." Remus offered.
"No you won't Mr Lupin you haven't done your exam yet." Lani told him. "But yes, you can take him up Mr Black."
They walked off together, with Sirius helping James to walk because his legs seemed a little un-stabled, only when they were out of ear shot of the rest of the class did they talk about what happened.
"It was Snape and Lestrange." James told him through his robes.
"I know I saw the look on their faces." Sirius said angrily. "They're not going to get away with this."
Later that day James was feeling much better and went looking for Madam Lani about his flying exam, she agreed with him that he couldn't do it over but she would mark him off his flying during the year; so with that he should still get a very good mark, not as good as he should have got though.
***
The exams were finally over and it was Saturday morning, the morning of the Quidditch final between Gryffindor and Slytherin, everyone made their way down to the stadium.
"I so prefer to just watch other people to fly then to do it myself." Ella told them as they sat down.
"It's the whole point about being a witch, well one of them being able to fly on a broomstick." Lily told her, she had quite got the hang of it and quite enjoyed it as well now.
"Well said Lil's." James said sitting down behind them.
They all turned round at the sound of his voice, he seemed a lot happier then he had done since the exam.
"For what I heard you were robbed mate." Nathan Rutledge told him, who was in Ravenclaw.
"We're working on it." James told them all mysteries, which told them all that they were up to something but none of them asked because the two teams flew out over the stadium.
Slytherin was playing dirty, because they knew that they weren't going to win, so they were going to do as much damage as possible. Fifteen minutes of gaol scoring only by Gryffindor's, so the score was 60-0, Slytherin had really taken up attacking them bludgers flying everywhere as though there were more then just the two out there, but Slytherin was the only ones getting their hands on them.
Tom Falkner was flying over head looking for the snitch and trying to stay away from the bludgers, when he spotted it. He dived; the two Slytherin beaters saw what he was doing and plated both bludgers at him. He was hit hard in the face and the chest which sent him falling and landed in the stands unconscious.
"Those bastards, that's way out of line!" James shouted as they ran down the benches to where he was laying.
"Is he alive?" Natalie asked them.
"Yeah just knocked out." James answered.
Michael Fuller the Gryffindor captain came flying over head and hovered just above them all.
"He's out cold." James told him taking hold of Tom's broomstick.
"Damn! We haven't got a reserve." Michael said.
"I can fly." James said hopefully.
They all looked at him, half the girls looked scared out of their minds at the idea of him flying, and the others quite impressed and dreamily at him, the lads thought it was quite bold but was fully behind him.
Michael was thinking it over, he knew there was no one else, and without a Secker they would lose so he nodded slowly.
"Good one mate." Remus said.
"Kick their asses!" Sirius shouted to him as he flew off to cheers, and some boo's from the Slytherin stand.
"Oh I do hope he's going to be ok." Lily said to Nissa.
"What about Tom though?" Natalie asked.
Nissa looked over at him taking her eyes off the game and missing James pulling off a brilliant move by missing a bludger attack. She jumped over the seats surprising them all and pulled off her robes and folded them up and then bent down and put them underneath his head and then turned back watching the game like everyone else around them.
"Come on James!" Sirius shouted.
"That was a close one." Remus said, with Peter covering his eyes every couple of seconds.
"He's going to be killed." Ella said.
"Course he isn't." Sirius told her though didn't take his eyes off of him.
Slytherin had scored and was catching up; James needed to catch the snitch for Gryffindor to win. James flew in and out of the other players as though he belonged up there, the Slytherin's gunning for him the whole time.
"There! There's the snitch!" Nissa shouted jumping up and down, as she hit Sirius on the arm pointing it out to him.
"I don't see anything." Sirius told her irritability. "I think you're seeing things."
James dived to where Nissa had been pointing at.
"He's found it!" Sirius roared.
James dived but Flinton the Slytherin Secker was too far behind to catch him now, but their beater wasn't and neither was their chaser. He swirled out of their way as they came speeding towards, but they couldn't pull up in time and crushed into one another; as James flew on inches away.
He reached out and grabbed it.
The crowd went wild, Gryffindor's, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff's were all screaming for them, because of course none of them had wanted Slytherin to win. The team came flying over the two girls both hugged him, and they made their way to the ground in disarray.
"He court it, we've won!" Nissa shouted, and then she lunged forward and hugged Sirius tightly smiling. "We won."
"We won!" The girls were screaming and hugging one another.
Sirius was so taken back that it took him a moment to realise that she was hugging him before he hugged her back both of them jumping up and down.
Everyone started to make their way down to the pitch, cheering and waving their bender's as they ran over to the team and almost lost them in the mass of crowd around them.
Sirius and Remus made their way through the crowd to their best mate, Peter keeping close behind them; as was Nissa with all her friends as well.
"You were brilliant mate!" Sirius shouted at him clapping him on the back.
"Oh you were, it would be an outrage if they didn't let you play next year." Nissa told him excitedly holding Sirius' arm, which no one noticed only him.
He thought that Gryffindor wasn't the only ones to win something today, he had also won Nissa as well, (which he thought was a much better prize).
They made their way back up to the castle and up to the Gryffindor common room, where they celebrated all night and into the early hours of the morning which at 2 o'clock Professor McGonagall had to come up and finally told them to all go to bed.
***
It was the leaving feast; everyone was making their way down to the great hall, their last meal at Hogwarts before they went home for the summer. The Slytherin's were in a mood bad they had been since they were hammered in the final, but the rest of the school was celebrating Gryffindor had won the Quidditch Cup and the Interhouse Cup as well.
"We'll have to write, so you can come over for the summer." James was telling them again as they sat down at the Gryffindor table, and shaking hands with a dozen people which he didn't know by name only by face.
"Brilliant."
"New Seeker for sure."
James smiled as he sat down, as was Sirius who was sat next to Nissa; though she hadn't done anything since the match and wasn't worried, because he just thought that she didn't want everyone knowing.
"Yeah course, this summers going to be great." Remus said. "Just you know."
"Of course." Sirius said waving his hand and grabbing a couple of chicken legs and filling his plate and started to eat.
"Anyone would think that he had never eaten before." James teased, as Sirius started eating everything insight well in arms length.
They were on the train going home, a whole year had passed and now they were going home, well until next September.
(A/N:- I know that I ended it suddenly, but if you want their to be another story of their second year you know what to do. There will be more Quidditch, exploring, pranks and a lot more beside; you might even meet Sirius' family if you continue to read the next story.