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Chapter 8
Quidditch Tryouts
Later that evening Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Cleo sat in the Gryffindor Common Room. Hermione was looking over her notes. She still wasn't talking to the rest of them. Harry and Ron were playing a game of chess while Cleo sat reading one of her American Quidditch books.
"Its weird isn't it?" Harry said after Ron moved his knight and put Harry in checkmate, again. And everyone looked at him as if he were crazy.
"Huh?" Ron and Cleo said at once.
Hermione shook her head and without even looking up said, "he means what Professor Binns said in class today."
"Oh, what about it?" Cleo said turning back to her book. All the other people in the Common Room began going up stairs to their dormitories.
"Four sisters. Every 150 years they're born and the last ones were born exactly 150 years before you and your sisters." Harry rambled of the reasons to Cleo.
"Come on, Harry." She put down her book and laughed out loud. "You don't believe that legend do you?"
"More than one legend has turned out to be fact." Ron reasoned.
"Right. Whatever, Ron." She said standing up. "I'm going to bed."
Harry and Ron looked after her as she disappeared up the spiral staircase to the girl's dormitory.
"What's with her?" Ron asked.
" I don't know." Harry answered.
"Men!" Hermione exclaimed. "You both are stupid. She not going to admit that she's got these special powers. She probably doesn't even know." She still was looking at her notes.
"How do you know?" Ron asked.
"Yeah. We thought you didn't like Cleo." Harry claimed.
"I don't really." She answered. "And its obvious." I'm going to bed, too." And she left for the Head Girls room. Harry and Ron just looked at each other and soon went up to their dormitory too.
The rest of the week passed quickly and uneventful and before anyone knew it Saturday and Quidditch tryouts had come. Nearly all of the Gryffindors were out at the Pitch early in the morning so they could know who was going to be on the team by the afternoon. The Ravenclaws, who had booked the Pitch last, wouldn't know who was on their team until tomorrow morning.
Harry, Ginny, Dean Thomas, and Seamus Finnigan stood with the rest of the people who wanted to try out for different spots on the team while Hermione, Neville, and most of the Gryffindor House sat up in the stands and watched. Ron, being Quidditch captain, started to make his speech that rivaled Oliver Wood's, who graduated from Hogwarts four years ago, when Cleo came running across the field with a broom in her hand.
"Wait for me!" she cried and soon joined them.
"I thought you weren't going to tryout." Ginny said as Cleo came to stand next to her.
"I decided to tryout for a different spot." Cleo said.
"Hey, Cleo? What kind of broom is that?" Harry asked, his eyes transfixed on the broom in her hand.
"Huh? Oh, it's a Millennium Falcon HyperDrive 5000." She answered casually and turned to Ron, who was starting his speech over again.
"I want this year to be the best. So we need the best players." He began to pace in front of the crowd. "We nearly lost to Slytherin last year and this year we can make no mistakes. We cannot I repeat cannot lose this year. We will win this year. All right, first thing's first. Does anyone want to tryout for Keeper?" he asked. "Or challenge me for Captain?"
Everyone one looked at each other but no one spoke. Harry and Ginny were half waiting for Cleo to speak up but she didn't. Ron looked out over the crowd, looking for anyone who would try and challenge him. When no one did he continued, "Alright we'll start with Chaser tryouts. Everyone who wants to tryout for Chaser step forward."
Ten people stepped out of the crowd including Seamus Finnigan. Ron went over to the box that held the Quidditch balls and took out the Quaffle then rose onto his broom. The ten people followed by also mounting their brooms and rising up into the air. Ron ordered the group to maneuver the ball to the hoops that Ron was defending. Ron had gotten a whole lot better at being keeper than he had in their fifth year when he had almost gotten kicked off the team because he kept letting the Quaffle through the hoops.
After what seemed like forever Ron motioned for them to land their brooms. He put the Quaffle back into the box and the group walked away to sit with the other Gryffindors in the stands. Ron called the Beaters up next. Everyone was shocked to see Cleo and Dean walked up next to the small group of four people who wanted to tryout for Beater. Each was given a club and they mounted their brooms and rose up into the air. Once they were up Ron let the Bludgers loose.
The Bludgers erupted from the box and shot straight up into the air. Cleo and the others rushed around the Pitch hitting the Bludgers back and forth. Ron watched them intently before calling them back down and forcing the Bludgers back into the box. Then he let the Snitch loose and Ginny and Harry quickly mounted their brooms and racing around to catch it. Ginny managed to catch it twice, letting it go after each time and counting to thirty before looking for it again. Harry also caught it twice before Ron called them back down.
"You will all know who is and is not on the team after dinner tonight." Ron said before everyone left to discuss whom he or she thought would actually make the team. Hermione had come down from the stands to talk to Harry, Ginny, and Ron while they walked back into the school. Cleo kept to herself as she walked with them.
"Hey Cleo! I'm not familiar with the that kind of broom what is it again?" Ron asked.
"It's a Millennium Falcon HyperDrive 5000." She said calmly as they entered the locker rooms. "It's an American brand. This one, Oreck 3000, and Valkyrie 1500 are the best brands in America." She said confidently.
"Can I see it?" Ron asked and she handed it to him. He looked it over muttering to himself. "What kind of wood is it?"
"California Red Wood." She answered as she went around the corner to change. She was done changing into a light sweater and jeans and Harry, Ron, and Ginny were still ogling her broom. Hermione was shaking her head at them, not understanding what was so fascinating.
"Uh, guys, I'd like to have my broom back if you all are done manhandling it." She laughed at the shocked looks on their faces before they handed it over to her. She then walked out and headed to the Broom shed. They met in the Great Hall for lunch after they had cleaned up from the tryouts.
"Next weekend is the first Hogsmeade weekend." Harry said as they started to eat.
"First what weekend?" Cleo asked.
"Hogsmeade. It's the only all magic town in England." Ron explained, taking a bite out of a chicken leg.
"Oh. So it's like Sunnydale out in California." She now understood.
"I think so." He answered. They finished lunch and then went down by the lake to have some basic laid back fun for the rest of the afternoon. Hermione had brought all of her books so that she could study. Harry and Ron were playing chess and sitting on a blanket that Cleo had brought. Cleo was stretched out on the grass a little ways away basking in the afternoon sun.
They all looked up when they heard some people calling Cleo. It was her sisters. She smiled when she saw them, jumped up, and ran to meet them.
"Hey Cleo!" A'lira cried and Mêlée and Curania joined in saying their hellos. They all joined Ron, Harry, and Hermione who greeted them as they sat down.
"Are you all looking forward to going to Hogsmeade next weekend?" Ron was asking.
"Yeah." A'lira said.
"I can't wait. I don't like staying in one place for long." Curania exclaimed. "The one place I really miss from the U.S. is the malls. Not only muggles had them but they were starting to pop up all over the American wizarding world."
Ron and Harry were looking at her in confusion. "What's a mall?" Ron asked.
"It's a huge building with lots of shops all under one roof." Cleo explained. "Curania is your standard popular girl."
"Yeah, her two great loves are talking and shopping." A'lira laughed. Curania laughed along with the rest of them. They talked for the entire afternoon often disturbing Hermione's unneeded studying. It was getting late and it was almost time for dinner before they went in.
After dinner all of the Gryffindors were in the common room awaiting Ron's announcement of who was on the Quidditch team. They didn't have to wait long for Ron came through the portal and into the common room soon after everyone else. He moved himself so that everyone could see him and began,
"After careful consideration I have finally decided on the Gryffindor Quidditch team players." There were a few moments of cheering before they once again fell into silence.
"The members of the team are, Chasers: Seamus Finnegan, Lauren Mallohan, and Casey Rollineas; Beaters: Cleo Black and Dean Thomas; Keeper and Captain, Ron Weasley, and Seeker: Harry Potter. First practice will be Monday evening at 7:00 p.m." Ron finished his speech and moved to stand next to Harry, Ginny, Hermione, and Cleo. The Gryffindor common room was filled with congratulations for the new players.
"Sorry Ginny. You understand." Ron said to his sister. Ginny smiled, "that's okay. Harry's the better seeker. Besides I still have next year and Harry's almost got the seeker position for one of the English teams."
"Thanks Ginny." Harry said. They all went to bed early that night but few got any sleep for a good number of the Gryffindors had decided to through a party in the common room for the new players.
Chapter 8
Quidditch Tryouts
Later that evening Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Cleo sat in the Gryffindor Common Room. Hermione was looking over her notes. She still wasn't talking to the rest of them. Harry and Ron were playing a game of chess while Cleo sat reading one of her American Quidditch books.
"Its weird isn't it?" Harry said after Ron moved his knight and put Harry in checkmate, again. And everyone looked at him as if he were crazy.
"Huh?" Ron and Cleo said at once.
Hermione shook her head and without even looking up said, "he means what Professor Binns said in class today."
"Oh, what about it?" Cleo said turning back to her book. All the other people in the Common Room began going up stairs to their dormitories.
"Four sisters. Every 150 years they're born and the last ones were born exactly 150 years before you and your sisters." Harry rambled of the reasons to Cleo.
"Come on, Harry." She put down her book and laughed out loud. "You don't believe that legend do you?"
"More than one legend has turned out to be fact." Ron reasoned.
"Right. Whatever, Ron." She said standing up. "I'm going to bed."
Harry and Ron looked after her as she disappeared up the spiral staircase to the girl's dormitory.
"What's with her?" Ron asked.
" I don't know." Harry answered.
"Men!" Hermione exclaimed. "You both are stupid. She not going to admit that she's got these special powers. She probably doesn't even know." She still was looking at her notes.
"How do you know?" Ron asked.
"Yeah. We thought you didn't like Cleo." Harry claimed.
"I don't really." She answered. "And its obvious." I'm going to bed, too." And she left for the Head Girls room. Harry and Ron just looked at each other and soon went up to their dormitory too.
The rest of the week passed quickly and uneventful and before anyone knew it Saturday and Quidditch tryouts had come. Nearly all of the Gryffindors were out at the Pitch early in the morning so they could know who was going to be on the team by the afternoon. The Ravenclaws, who had booked the Pitch last, wouldn't know who was on their team until tomorrow morning.
Harry, Ginny, Dean Thomas, and Seamus Finnigan stood with the rest of the people who wanted to try out for different spots on the team while Hermione, Neville, and most of the Gryffindor House sat up in the stands and watched. Ron, being Quidditch captain, started to make his speech that rivaled Oliver Wood's, who graduated from Hogwarts four years ago, when Cleo came running across the field with a broom in her hand.
"Wait for me!" she cried and soon joined them.
"I thought you weren't going to tryout." Ginny said as Cleo came to stand next to her.
"I decided to tryout for a different spot." Cleo said.
"Hey, Cleo? What kind of broom is that?" Harry asked, his eyes transfixed on the broom in her hand.
"Huh? Oh, it's a Millennium Falcon HyperDrive 5000." She answered casually and turned to Ron, who was starting his speech over again.
"I want this year to be the best. So we need the best players." He began to pace in front of the crowd. "We nearly lost to Slytherin last year and this year we can make no mistakes. We cannot I repeat cannot lose this year. We will win this year. All right, first thing's first. Does anyone want to tryout for Keeper?" he asked. "Or challenge me for Captain?"
Everyone one looked at each other but no one spoke. Harry and Ginny were half waiting for Cleo to speak up but she didn't. Ron looked out over the crowd, looking for anyone who would try and challenge him. When no one did he continued, "Alright we'll start with Chaser tryouts. Everyone who wants to tryout for Chaser step forward."
Ten people stepped out of the crowd including Seamus Finnigan. Ron went over to the box that held the Quidditch balls and took out the Quaffle then rose onto his broom. The ten people followed by also mounting their brooms and rising up into the air. Ron ordered the group to maneuver the ball to the hoops that Ron was defending. Ron had gotten a whole lot better at being keeper than he had in their fifth year when he had almost gotten kicked off the team because he kept letting the Quaffle through the hoops.
After what seemed like forever Ron motioned for them to land their brooms. He put the Quaffle back into the box and the group walked away to sit with the other Gryffindors in the stands. Ron called the Beaters up next. Everyone was shocked to see Cleo and Dean walked up next to the small group of four people who wanted to tryout for Beater. Each was given a club and they mounted their brooms and rose up into the air. Once they were up Ron let the Bludgers loose.
The Bludgers erupted from the box and shot straight up into the air. Cleo and the others rushed around the Pitch hitting the Bludgers back and forth. Ron watched them intently before calling them back down and forcing the Bludgers back into the box. Then he let the Snitch loose and Ginny and Harry quickly mounted their brooms and racing around to catch it. Ginny managed to catch it twice, letting it go after each time and counting to thirty before looking for it again. Harry also caught it twice before Ron called them back down.
"You will all know who is and is not on the team after dinner tonight." Ron said before everyone left to discuss whom he or she thought would actually make the team. Hermione had come down from the stands to talk to Harry, Ginny, and Ron while they walked back into the school. Cleo kept to herself as she walked with them.
"Hey Cleo! I'm not familiar with the that kind of broom what is it again?" Ron asked.
"It's a Millennium Falcon HyperDrive 5000." She said calmly as they entered the locker rooms. "It's an American brand. This one, Oreck 3000, and Valkyrie 1500 are the best brands in America." She said confidently.
"Can I see it?" Ron asked and she handed it to him. He looked it over muttering to himself. "What kind of wood is it?"
"California Red Wood." She answered as she went around the corner to change. She was done changing into a light sweater and jeans and Harry, Ron, and Ginny were still ogling her broom. Hermione was shaking her head at them, not understanding what was so fascinating.
"Uh, guys, I'd like to have my broom back if you all are done manhandling it." She laughed at the shocked looks on their faces before they handed it over to her. She then walked out and headed to the Broom shed. They met in the Great Hall for lunch after they had cleaned up from the tryouts.
"Next weekend is the first Hogsmeade weekend." Harry said as they started to eat.
"First what weekend?" Cleo asked.
"Hogsmeade. It's the only all magic town in England." Ron explained, taking a bite out of a chicken leg.
"Oh. So it's like Sunnydale out in California." She now understood.
"I think so." He answered. They finished lunch and then went down by the lake to have some basic laid back fun for the rest of the afternoon. Hermione had brought all of her books so that she could study. Harry and Ron were playing chess and sitting on a blanket that Cleo had brought. Cleo was stretched out on the grass a little ways away basking in the afternoon sun.
They all looked up when they heard some people calling Cleo. It was her sisters. She smiled when she saw them, jumped up, and ran to meet them.
"Hey Cleo!" A'lira cried and Mêlée and Curania joined in saying their hellos. They all joined Ron, Harry, and Hermione who greeted them as they sat down.
"Are you all looking forward to going to Hogsmeade next weekend?" Ron was asking.
"Yeah." A'lira said.
"I can't wait. I don't like staying in one place for long." Curania exclaimed. "The one place I really miss from the U.S. is the malls. Not only muggles had them but they were starting to pop up all over the American wizarding world."
Ron and Harry were looking at her in confusion. "What's a mall?" Ron asked.
"It's a huge building with lots of shops all under one roof." Cleo explained. "Curania is your standard popular girl."
"Yeah, her two great loves are talking and shopping." A'lira laughed. Curania laughed along with the rest of them. They talked for the entire afternoon often disturbing Hermione's unneeded studying. It was getting late and it was almost time for dinner before they went in.
After dinner all of the Gryffindors were in the common room awaiting Ron's announcement of who was on the Quidditch team. They didn't have to wait long for Ron came through the portal and into the common room soon after everyone else. He moved himself so that everyone could see him and began,
"After careful consideration I have finally decided on the Gryffindor Quidditch team players." There were a few moments of cheering before they once again fell into silence.
"The members of the team are, Chasers: Seamus Finnegan, Lauren Mallohan, and Casey Rollineas; Beaters: Cleo Black and Dean Thomas; Keeper and Captain, Ron Weasley, and Seeker: Harry Potter. First practice will be Monday evening at 7:00 p.m." Ron finished his speech and moved to stand next to Harry, Ginny, Hermione, and Cleo. The Gryffindor common room was filled with congratulations for the new players.
"Sorry Ginny. You understand." Ron said to his sister. Ginny smiled, "that's okay. Harry's the better seeker. Besides I still have next year and Harry's almost got the seeker position for one of the English teams."
"Thanks Ginny." Harry said. They all went to bed early that night but few got any sleep for a good number of the Gryffindors had decided to through a party in the common room for the new players.