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Hey everyone!!! Thanks for all the awesome reviews you guys! I love checking my e-mail and seeing that people have read and reviewed my story, it really makes my day!!! Anyways, I have to especially thank Jen-who's still posting this story for me since my computer is crap-and Hitomi Fanel who's constantly reviewing with positive comments! I can't wait to see that picture you promised me!!! Anywho, here's chapter 18, enjoy and please review!!!
Chapter 17: Quidditch
After the excitement of Halloween, the weekend was rather dull, that is, until Sunday night. Earlier that day, Lily had noticed Megan was busy at work writing in the corner of the common room and everyone knew what that meant; James would be doing something very entertaining very soon. Sure enough, right before dinner, Megan handed the piece of paper to James who, once again, looked mortified.
"Please tell me you're joking," James pleaded.
Megan smiled, "Sorry," she said, "No can do."
"I hate you so much," James said, he looked ready to explode. Lily had to respect the guy for keeping his temper in check, knowing Megan, whatever the task was that he had to do, it was bound to be unpleasant.
"That's nice," Megan replied, still smiling, "Now, go have fun!"
James gave her a dirty look, before stalking off towards the Great Hall, Sirius chasing after him. As the disappeared down the hallway, Lily could hear Sirius pestering James with questions.
Megan turned to Lily, "We better hurry so we don't miss it," Megan said.
"OK," Lily said and the two took off towards the Great Hall as well.
As they entered, Lily saw James making his way towards the Slytherin table.
"This is going to be great," Megan said.
"What does he have to do exactly?" Lily asked.
"Just watch," Megan said.
James stopped near Snape. He cleared his throat and began, all the while looking ready to throw up at any minute.
"My Dearest Snape," he began, and the hall fell silent, "Roses are red, violets are blue, do you love me? Because I love you. Your hair, though greasy it may be, reminds me of the deep dark sea. Your big schnoze is one of a kind, and I must ask you, does it have its own mind? Your eyes are black, black like the night, and dark as can be, that is how I know, that you must love me. You envy my charm and my nerdish good looks, but you can do nothing about it with your moldy old books. In short, let me say love you my dear, and won't you be mine, for the rest of the year?"
Everyone stared in shock, then burst out laughing at the look on both boys' faces. Snape looked ready to kill James and James looked utterly humiliated. James turned, ran as fast as he could to the Gryffindor table and sat down, trying to hide behind Sirius and Peter. Remus was once again absent having been 'called away' that afternoon.
"Awww," Lily said, as she and Megan walked over, "That was so cute! I never knew you wrote poetry James!"
James glared at her, "Shut up," he snapped angrily.
Still laughing, the two girls sat down and began eating. As they ate, Lily heard several students discussing the wizarding sport of Quidditch.
"Hey Megan," Lily said, as she reached for the salt, "Why are so many people talking about Quidditch?"
"It's 'cause next Saturday is the first inter-school Quidditch match of the season," Megan said, "We're playing Hufflepuff."
"Sounds fun," Lily said, "What are our chances of winning?"
"Pretty good actually," Megan said, as she piled more mashed potatoes on her plate, "Hufflepuff isn't a very strong team this year because their keeper graduated last year and their new one's not very good. The only player we have to watch out for on their team is their Seeker, Karen Brown, she's a pretty good flier."
"I see," Lily said, "Could you maybe explain Quidditch to me though? I only have a rough idea of how it works."
"Sure," Megan said with a shrug, "What do you need to know?"
"Everything," said Lily.
Megan laughed, "OK, let's start with the different balls and positions then," she said, "It's a seven player game with four balls that's played on broomsticks. There are three chasers, ours are Katie, Alice Griffin, Professor Griffin's niece, and Jessica Gunton. There's also a keeper, which is what Zack plays. Now the chasers and the keeper play with the red ball, which is called the Quaffle. The chasers try to throw the Quaffle through the opposing team's gold goal hoops at the end of the pitch. It's the keeper's job to block shots from making it through the goal hoops. Each time the Quaffle goes through the hoops, the scoring team receives 10 points. Understand it so far, or have I already lost you?"
"No, I get it," Lily said, "Continue."
"Alright then," Megan said, "There's also two beaters, ours are Orlando, who you've met-"
"Yeah, he's one of the cute ones."
"Yeah, and our other beater is Frank Longbottom. Now it's the beaters' job to try to keep the two black balls, called bludgers, that fly around trying to knock people off their brooms away from our team. Because of this, the beaters have small bats to whack the bludgers with. Are you still with me?"
"Yep."
"Good. Now the final position is seeker, which is what Alex plays. Now his job is to catch the final ball, a tiny golden ball that flies around and is really hard to find. This ball is called the golden snitch."
"Why is it called a snitch?"
"I have no idea-someone probably just thought the name up at random."
"Ah."
"Anywho, the game is not over until the snitch is caught and the seeker who catches the snitch earns their team and extra 150 points so their team almost always wins."
"So a Quidditch game could last hours?"
"Try days," Megan said, "There was one game that lasted almost a month. They had to keep subbing so the players could sleep."
"Weird," said Lily, "You play seeker and beater right?"
Megan nodded, "Yeah," she said, "I can play chaser and keeper too but I'm not as good at those positions."
"Ah," said Lily, "I see."
"But do you understand Quidditch now?" asked Megan.
Lily nodded slowly, "Yeah," she said, "But it sure sounds confusing."
"It is at first but once you get used to it you'll be fine," Megan said, "Plus, it's really exciting."
"Well it sounds like it," said Lily.
*************
The next few days were a blur and the next thing Lily knew, it was Friday afternoon and classes were finished for the week. She and Megan hurried to the Room of Requirement to check their potion right after class.
"It'll be ready any day now," Megan said as she stirred it.
"We still need an alibi," Lily said, "And a way to get the boys to drink the sleeping potion."
Megan thought a minute, "We could just hang back and say we'll catch up with everyone," she said, "And the sleeping potion's not a big deal, we'll just slip it to them right before everyone goes down to dinner."
"So we'll just run out of the hall, duck down a random hallway, change back into ourselves then go back to the hall and pretend we don't know what's just happened?" said Lily.
Megan nodded, "Yep," she said.
Lily stared at her, "And you think that will actually work?"
"Why not?" said Megan, "It's nice and simple if you think about it. Just as everyone goes looking for the boys, they'll be waking up in Gryffindor Tower. We can even say they're innocent because they were still asleep when we left to come to dinner if we feel like it."
"Why would we?" said Lily.
"So even they don't suspect us of causing all the trouble," said Megan.
"Ah," said Lily, "I see. And you're sure this will work?"
"Positive," said Megan, "How could it not?"
*************
The next morning dawned bright and clear, perfect for playing Quidditch. The only person other then than members of the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff Quidditch teams who seemed tired was Remus but he had been away again for a few days. He claimed his aunt was ill and he had gone to visit her but everyone suspected he was lying. However, only Megan and Lily seemed to know the truth about his strange absences.
The Quidditch teams went down to the stadium earlier then the spectators to prepare for the match but soon afterwards, the students and teachers of Hogwarts followed them. Daniel Davidson, one of Katie and Zack's friends was providing a commentary of the match, closely watched by several teachers.
"And what a beautiful day it is for a Quidditch match!" he said, his voice echoing through the stands, "Welcome to the first game of the season between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff!"
There were cheers from the crowd and he continued. "And here come the Hufflepuffs!" he said, "Baldwin, Baxter, Brown, Diggory, Green, MacMillan and Turner!"
There were loud cheers from the Hufflepuffs as seven yellow robed players zoomed onto the field on their brooms.
"And now for the Gryffindors!" Daniel said, "Bloom, Griffin, Gunton, Johnston, Johnston, Johnston and Longbottom!"
All the Gryffindors cheered as seven scarlet robed players zoomed onto the field to join the Hufflepuffs.
"You'll notice that Katie Johnston has joined brothers Alex and Zack on the Gryffindor team this year," Daniel said, "The only Johnston sibling now missing is Megan, a first year Gryffindor here at Hogwarts and the youngest Johnston."
Several people cheered and Lily grinned at Megan who grinned back.
"As if you need any more publicity," Lily said and Megan laughed.
The whistle blew and the game began. It was very fast paced and Lily was fascinated. The Gryffindors were soon way ahead, 60 points to none. Every so often, Megan would comment on plays, usually pointing out a mistake. Lily soon realized that Megan must be good at Quidditch because she seemed to know everything about it. Then again, maybe it was just that Lily still had trouble understanding the finer points of the game. However, Lily had to admit that Megan did have very sharp eyes; she spotted the snitch before either Seeker did, and it was all the way across the field.
"Look!" she exclaimed as she pointed wildly across the field, "See the shiny thing over there?" The thing that's moving around a bit?"
Lily squinted and could see the tiniest bit of movement, "Yeah." she said slowly.
"That's the snitch!" said Megan, "If Alex doesn't get a move on, Hufflepuff will get it and could still win! And look! There goes their seeker now!"
Sure enough, the Hufflepuff seeker had spotted it and was hurtling towards it. Luckily, Alex also spotted it and sped towards it as well.
"And both seekers have spotted the snitch!" Daniel yelled.
The spectators waited with much anticipation. The snitch sped off down the pitch, with both seekers in tow. A few tense seconds later, Alex reached out, and his hand closed over the snitch. He landed, his fist raised in triumphant, to cheers from the Gryffindors.
"And Alex captures the snitch!" Daniel yelled over the noise, "220 points to 20 for Gryffindor!"
As a result, there was a party in the Gyffindor Common Room that night, complete with music and lots of food. A large banner read "GRYFFINDOR RULES" in scarlet and gold lettering over the fireplace. There was so much chaos, that Lily didn't realize Megan had left until she saw her entering through the portrait hole.
"Where'd you go?" Lily asked as she walked over to Megan.
"Just wanted to check on the you-know-what," Megan replied.
"Oh," Lily said, "And.?"
Megan grinned, "It's ready," she said, "When do you want to do it?"
Lily thought a minute, "How about Monday?" she said, "That way we don't ruin their weekend."
"You're so generous Lily," Megan said, "How very thoughtful of you."
"I know," said Lily.
"OK then," Megan said, "Monday it is. Now let's party!"
"Yeah!" yelled Lily and the two spent the rest of the evening having lots of fun with the other Gryffindors.
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Yay! It's done! Whee!!! I'm working on chapter 19 right now and it'll be up soon, depends on how much I get done tonight and tomorrow. It probably won't be up until next week though but we'll see. For those who are wondering, yes I wrote the poem that James read to Snape, I was feeling inspired during French class the other day. I was quite proud of myself for actually writing a poem all by myself because my rhyming ability is quite lacking. Anywho, yeah, it was a bit of a fluff chapter but it had Quidditch in it so that was good, even if a lot of the chapter was pretty cliché. Well, guess that's all for now! Please review!!! Thanks!!!
~*~MeGaN~*~
P.S. If you like humorous stories that are really random, you might want to check out my other story. It's called "Harry Potter In A Messed Up Little World" and is really random. It's kind of disturbing too but my friends all think it's funny so you might too. Anywho, check it out if you want to but be warned, it's NOTHING like this story.
P.P.S. Just wondering, do any of you think I should be a bit more creative with my chapter titles? I'm just wondering because I'm starting to feel like the chapter title gives away too much about the chapter-please review with your thoughts.
Hey everyone!!! Thanks for all the awesome reviews you guys! I love checking my e-mail and seeing that people have read and reviewed my story, it really makes my day!!! Anyways, I have to especially thank Jen-who's still posting this story for me since my computer is crap-and Hitomi Fanel who's constantly reviewing with positive comments! I can't wait to see that picture you promised me!!! Anywho, here's chapter 18, enjoy and please review!!!
Chapter 17: Quidditch
After the excitement of Halloween, the weekend was rather dull, that is, until Sunday night. Earlier that day, Lily had noticed Megan was busy at work writing in the corner of the common room and everyone knew what that meant; James would be doing something very entertaining very soon. Sure enough, right before dinner, Megan handed the piece of paper to James who, once again, looked mortified.
"Please tell me you're joking," James pleaded.
Megan smiled, "Sorry," she said, "No can do."
"I hate you so much," James said, he looked ready to explode. Lily had to respect the guy for keeping his temper in check, knowing Megan, whatever the task was that he had to do, it was bound to be unpleasant.
"That's nice," Megan replied, still smiling, "Now, go have fun!"
James gave her a dirty look, before stalking off towards the Great Hall, Sirius chasing after him. As the disappeared down the hallway, Lily could hear Sirius pestering James with questions.
Megan turned to Lily, "We better hurry so we don't miss it," Megan said.
"OK," Lily said and the two took off towards the Great Hall as well.
As they entered, Lily saw James making his way towards the Slytherin table.
"This is going to be great," Megan said.
"What does he have to do exactly?" Lily asked.
"Just watch," Megan said.
James stopped near Snape. He cleared his throat and began, all the while looking ready to throw up at any minute.
"My Dearest Snape," he began, and the hall fell silent, "Roses are red, violets are blue, do you love me? Because I love you. Your hair, though greasy it may be, reminds me of the deep dark sea. Your big schnoze is one of a kind, and I must ask you, does it have its own mind? Your eyes are black, black like the night, and dark as can be, that is how I know, that you must love me. You envy my charm and my nerdish good looks, but you can do nothing about it with your moldy old books. In short, let me say love you my dear, and won't you be mine, for the rest of the year?"
Everyone stared in shock, then burst out laughing at the look on both boys' faces. Snape looked ready to kill James and James looked utterly humiliated. James turned, ran as fast as he could to the Gryffindor table and sat down, trying to hide behind Sirius and Peter. Remus was once again absent having been 'called away' that afternoon.
"Awww," Lily said, as she and Megan walked over, "That was so cute! I never knew you wrote poetry James!"
James glared at her, "Shut up," he snapped angrily.
Still laughing, the two girls sat down and began eating. As they ate, Lily heard several students discussing the wizarding sport of Quidditch.
"Hey Megan," Lily said, as she reached for the salt, "Why are so many people talking about Quidditch?"
"It's 'cause next Saturday is the first inter-school Quidditch match of the season," Megan said, "We're playing Hufflepuff."
"Sounds fun," Lily said, "What are our chances of winning?"
"Pretty good actually," Megan said, as she piled more mashed potatoes on her plate, "Hufflepuff isn't a very strong team this year because their keeper graduated last year and their new one's not very good. The only player we have to watch out for on their team is their Seeker, Karen Brown, she's a pretty good flier."
"I see," Lily said, "Could you maybe explain Quidditch to me though? I only have a rough idea of how it works."
"Sure," Megan said with a shrug, "What do you need to know?"
"Everything," said Lily.
Megan laughed, "OK, let's start with the different balls and positions then," she said, "It's a seven player game with four balls that's played on broomsticks. There are three chasers, ours are Katie, Alice Griffin, Professor Griffin's niece, and Jessica Gunton. There's also a keeper, which is what Zack plays. Now the chasers and the keeper play with the red ball, which is called the Quaffle. The chasers try to throw the Quaffle through the opposing team's gold goal hoops at the end of the pitch. It's the keeper's job to block shots from making it through the goal hoops. Each time the Quaffle goes through the hoops, the scoring team receives 10 points. Understand it so far, or have I already lost you?"
"No, I get it," Lily said, "Continue."
"Alright then," Megan said, "There's also two beaters, ours are Orlando, who you've met-"
"Yeah, he's one of the cute ones."
"Yeah, and our other beater is Frank Longbottom. Now it's the beaters' job to try to keep the two black balls, called bludgers, that fly around trying to knock people off their brooms away from our team. Because of this, the beaters have small bats to whack the bludgers with. Are you still with me?"
"Yep."
"Good. Now the final position is seeker, which is what Alex plays. Now his job is to catch the final ball, a tiny golden ball that flies around and is really hard to find. This ball is called the golden snitch."
"Why is it called a snitch?"
"I have no idea-someone probably just thought the name up at random."
"Ah."
"Anywho, the game is not over until the snitch is caught and the seeker who catches the snitch earns their team and extra 150 points so their team almost always wins."
"So a Quidditch game could last hours?"
"Try days," Megan said, "There was one game that lasted almost a month. They had to keep subbing so the players could sleep."
"Weird," said Lily, "You play seeker and beater right?"
Megan nodded, "Yeah," she said, "I can play chaser and keeper too but I'm not as good at those positions."
"Ah," said Lily, "I see."
"But do you understand Quidditch now?" asked Megan.
Lily nodded slowly, "Yeah," she said, "But it sure sounds confusing."
"It is at first but once you get used to it you'll be fine," Megan said, "Plus, it's really exciting."
"Well it sounds like it," said Lily.
*************
The next few days were a blur and the next thing Lily knew, it was Friday afternoon and classes were finished for the week. She and Megan hurried to the Room of Requirement to check their potion right after class.
"It'll be ready any day now," Megan said as she stirred it.
"We still need an alibi," Lily said, "And a way to get the boys to drink the sleeping potion."
Megan thought a minute, "We could just hang back and say we'll catch up with everyone," she said, "And the sleeping potion's not a big deal, we'll just slip it to them right before everyone goes down to dinner."
"So we'll just run out of the hall, duck down a random hallway, change back into ourselves then go back to the hall and pretend we don't know what's just happened?" said Lily.
Megan nodded, "Yep," she said.
Lily stared at her, "And you think that will actually work?"
"Why not?" said Megan, "It's nice and simple if you think about it. Just as everyone goes looking for the boys, they'll be waking up in Gryffindor Tower. We can even say they're innocent because they were still asleep when we left to come to dinner if we feel like it."
"Why would we?" said Lily.
"So even they don't suspect us of causing all the trouble," said Megan.
"Ah," said Lily, "I see. And you're sure this will work?"
"Positive," said Megan, "How could it not?"
*************
The next morning dawned bright and clear, perfect for playing Quidditch. The only person other then than members of the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff Quidditch teams who seemed tired was Remus but he had been away again for a few days. He claimed his aunt was ill and he had gone to visit her but everyone suspected he was lying. However, only Megan and Lily seemed to know the truth about his strange absences.
The Quidditch teams went down to the stadium earlier then the spectators to prepare for the match but soon afterwards, the students and teachers of Hogwarts followed them. Daniel Davidson, one of Katie and Zack's friends was providing a commentary of the match, closely watched by several teachers.
"And what a beautiful day it is for a Quidditch match!" he said, his voice echoing through the stands, "Welcome to the first game of the season between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff!"
There were cheers from the crowd and he continued. "And here come the Hufflepuffs!" he said, "Baldwin, Baxter, Brown, Diggory, Green, MacMillan and Turner!"
There were loud cheers from the Hufflepuffs as seven yellow robed players zoomed onto the field on their brooms.
"And now for the Gryffindors!" Daniel said, "Bloom, Griffin, Gunton, Johnston, Johnston, Johnston and Longbottom!"
All the Gryffindors cheered as seven scarlet robed players zoomed onto the field to join the Hufflepuffs.
"You'll notice that Katie Johnston has joined brothers Alex and Zack on the Gryffindor team this year," Daniel said, "The only Johnston sibling now missing is Megan, a first year Gryffindor here at Hogwarts and the youngest Johnston."
Several people cheered and Lily grinned at Megan who grinned back.
"As if you need any more publicity," Lily said and Megan laughed.
The whistle blew and the game began. It was very fast paced and Lily was fascinated. The Gryffindors were soon way ahead, 60 points to none. Every so often, Megan would comment on plays, usually pointing out a mistake. Lily soon realized that Megan must be good at Quidditch because she seemed to know everything about it. Then again, maybe it was just that Lily still had trouble understanding the finer points of the game. However, Lily had to admit that Megan did have very sharp eyes; she spotted the snitch before either Seeker did, and it was all the way across the field.
"Look!" she exclaimed as she pointed wildly across the field, "See the shiny thing over there?" The thing that's moving around a bit?"
Lily squinted and could see the tiniest bit of movement, "Yeah." she said slowly.
"That's the snitch!" said Megan, "If Alex doesn't get a move on, Hufflepuff will get it and could still win! And look! There goes their seeker now!"
Sure enough, the Hufflepuff seeker had spotted it and was hurtling towards it. Luckily, Alex also spotted it and sped towards it as well.
"And both seekers have spotted the snitch!" Daniel yelled.
The spectators waited with much anticipation. The snitch sped off down the pitch, with both seekers in tow. A few tense seconds later, Alex reached out, and his hand closed over the snitch. He landed, his fist raised in triumphant, to cheers from the Gryffindors.
"And Alex captures the snitch!" Daniel yelled over the noise, "220 points to 20 for Gryffindor!"
As a result, there was a party in the Gyffindor Common Room that night, complete with music and lots of food. A large banner read "GRYFFINDOR RULES" in scarlet and gold lettering over the fireplace. There was so much chaos, that Lily didn't realize Megan had left until she saw her entering through the portrait hole.
"Where'd you go?" Lily asked as she walked over to Megan.
"Just wanted to check on the you-know-what," Megan replied.
"Oh," Lily said, "And.?"
Megan grinned, "It's ready," she said, "When do you want to do it?"
Lily thought a minute, "How about Monday?" she said, "That way we don't ruin their weekend."
"You're so generous Lily," Megan said, "How very thoughtful of you."
"I know," said Lily.
"OK then," Megan said, "Monday it is. Now let's party!"
"Yeah!" yelled Lily and the two spent the rest of the evening having lots of fun with the other Gryffindors.
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Yay! It's done! Whee!!! I'm working on chapter 19 right now and it'll be up soon, depends on how much I get done tonight and tomorrow. It probably won't be up until next week though but we'll see. For those who are wondering, yes I wrote the poem that James read to Snape, I was feeling inspired during French class the other day. I was quite proud of myself for actually writing a poem all by myself because my rhyming ability is quite lacking. Anywho, yeah, it was a bit of a fluff chapter but it had Quidditch in it so that was good, even if a lot of the chapter was pretty cliché. Well, guess that's all for now! Please review!!! Thanks!!!
~*~MeGaN~*~
P.S. If you like humorous stories that are really random, you might want to check out my other story. It's called "Harry Potter In A Messed Up Little World" and is really random. It's kind of disturbing too but my friends all think it's funny so you might too. Anywho, check it out if you want to but be warned, it's NOTHING like this story.
P.P.S. Just wondering, do any of you think I should be a bit more creative with my chapter titles? I'm just wondering because I'm starting to feel like the chapter title gives away too much about the chapter-please review with your thoughts.