Hello I had a great Christmas except for having my wisdom teeth out but I
lived and was in a daze for a few days no big. Well here is another
chapter for you and I hope you like it. Nothing you recognize is mine.
~stormie
Quidditch, Quidditch, Quidditch and Disaster
Two weeks or to be more correct in James' words 13 days and 6 hours later the gryffindor team and people trying out were assembling on the quidditch pitch for tryouts. "Hello everyone and welcome to the gryffindor quidditch tryouts. First the beaters will tryout then the keepers, chasers and seekers. Last year most of our team graduated or will not be able to return so we have many openings. Good luck." Marcus said his voice booming around the pitch "Sirius black" was yelled and Sirius mounted his boom and sped to the person holding the bat. He was given instructions and the bat. He was to hit the blugers at the targets assigned to him. Then he would have to defend a person on his team from the blugers trying to hit them. Sirius was in the air for 15 minutes before he went and sat down again. He was sweating and out of breath. "Man those blugers are nasty." He said "Ya just like you" lily smiled "Sydney potter" was yelled and she got on her broom. She was given the same instructions as Sirius and preformed well. "That was easy" she said when she landed. They watched the other student's trying out for beater and Sirius and Sydney were the best by far. Next were keepers. Lily was trying out for the heck of it because she wasn't sure what she wanted but it didn't matter because they already had a keeper but had to have tryouts for the position anyways. "Lily Evans" was the second name called so she flew in the air and received her instructions. All she had to do was protect the goals and she would be fine. She did a good job and was done relatively soon. "Not bad Evans" Malfoy remarked as he sat down behind the group. "Shut it Malfoy no one asked you and why are you here in the first place you aren't in gryffindor thankfully. Of course you would never make it in anyways." James said Thankfully at that time he was called to tryout for chaser. He flew in the air and worked with the returning chaser. Next lily was called and the 3 of them worked together in a scrimmage against the keeper with blugers flying at them. When they were done they flew to the ground and took a seat watching the other chasers and students. When the tryouts were done they returned to the common room talking about what they saw. "Lily, James you two were the best chasers there." Sirius said "Thank you for your expert Quidditch opinion. I just hope I make it" lily said "You will do fine lils" James reassured her. "Well Sirius and Sydney were the best beaters but Sirius is like a human blugers so I bet if he got hit it would do no harm anyways." Remus laughed "That's not funny" Sirius scowled "but probably true" he added as an after thought. "So when are you getting up tomorrow to check the list?" lily asked "Well James will probably not go to sleep so I expect to be woken up pretty early" Sirius said with a strait face and they could tell he meant it. "I think I will get up like normal James will probably tell me if I make it or not." Lily said "True, to true." Sydney added "So what are we going to do if we make it?" lily asked "What do you mean?" remus looked at her "Well the team will have 4 2nd years on it. Won't it be a young team?" lily asked "Yes but 4 very good 2nd years" Marcus pointed out as he walked up. "I just wanted to say you 4 had a good tryout and I hope everything turns out how you want it to." And he walked away "What's that suppose to mean?" lily asked "Who knows" Sirius said a girl that looked to be a 5th year walked up. "Hi my names Renee I'm the other chaser for the quidditch team. Marcus does that every year. He likes to scare the people who tried out for the team to make them wonder if they made it or not. He normally only does it to the ones who were very good and will probably make it. You must have impressed him." She explained "Well thank you I guess. I hope I make it. It was fun flying with you. You are really good." Lily told her. "It will be a pleasure flying with the both of you if you make it this year." Renee said and walked off "I though me and Sirius were the only weird ones around here." James commented "but I guess not those two seem to be pretty bad also." "She was just being nice you doof" and Sydney hit him upside the head. "So what are we going to do now?" James asked "Well I already finished my homework for the next week so I think I will go to bed. You coming Sydney?" lily asked "Ya I think I will I'm kind of tired." Sydney and lily walked up the stairs to their room. The next morning lily was woken up by James jumping on her bed and Sydney was woken up by Sirius jumping on hers. "They posted the results come and look" James squealed "No its" lily passed to look at her clock "6 in the morning I can still sleep for an hour." And she rolled over "Go away" Sydney told them "No wake up and come and look at the list." Sirius ordered. They kept jumping until the girls got up.
"Fine get off my bed then" and lily pushed James off.
"Ouch that hurt" James complained rubbing his butt.
"Well you deserved it." Lily said
"Just come on and go down stairs!" James practically yelled
"Don't be so touchy" lily threw up her hands in defeat. "Some people just aren't morning people shesh" and she grinned at Sydney and Sirius as she ran down the stairs to get away from James.
When lily and Sydney made it down stairs 30 minutes later to the annoyance of Sirius and James there was a group in front of the Quidditch list. Lily and Sydney made their way to the front of the group they looked at the list. They saw their names and started jumping around.
"We made the team" they sang then ran over and gave Sirius and James kisses on the cheek.
Marcus stood on a table to get everyone's attention he was grinning. "Finally the last two members of our new team have graced us with their presence. I would like to say we will have an awesome team this year and win the cup!" there were cheers in the common room. "Now down to business practices start Wednesday. I devised a grueling," the team groaned, "workout schedule so that we will be in top physical condition this season. We lost last year to Ravenclaw on a slight technicality, anyone could mistake Professor Dumbledor's glasses for the snitch but this year our seeker had glasses she will wear to see the game and that will not happen again." More cheers were heard throughout the common room.
James walked over to his sister "I still don't see how you could have grabbed dumbledor's glasses." He shook his head.
"James leave her alone you have though I was Sirius without yours on" lily pointed out "and that is hard to do."
"I said I was sorry what else do you want me to do?" he threw up his hands.
"Leave veronica alone." Lily smiled
James and Sirius were on cloud nine for the next few days. Lily and Sydney were not far below them only on 5 or 6. They were brought down from the clouds by the first practice. They were early to the changing rooms. They changed and met the rest of the team.
"Ok now down to business this year we will be practicing harder to be ready for anything. Our first game is against Slytherin so we need to be ready." Marcus started "today we will be working on fitness on and off the broom. You need to get your whole body in shape. The first 2 weeks we will do it as a team but after that I expect you to do it on your own. Now lets get started."
The team went out but before they even got on their brooms they had to run 2 laps around the pitch then do stadium steps for a good kickoff. Next Marcus had them get on their brooms and sent them through a rigorous course in the air. Finally an hour later they started practicing their positions. The chasers had to work on formations and moves. The beaters were hitting bludgers at targets. The keeper was practicing the goals from the chasers and the seeker was diving. After another hour Marcus had them do 200 crunches and they had to do pushups. When the practice was done the team dragged themselves to the locker rooms and a quick shower. They then dragged themselves to the common room and collapsed.
"Wow he is insane" Sirius said
"No you just out of shape" lily said
"You and Sydney cant give us that you are both exhausted also." James pointed out.
"At least we can hold our heads off the ground" Sirius and James were lying on the rug spread out they didn't make it to the couch.
"Ha ha that's what you think" James said he tried to get up but couldn't move. "Remus a little help" Remus smiled them waved his wand and James and Sirius were floating to their room. Lily and Sydney laughed then went to get up but couldn't.
"Remus?" they asked he smiled and pulled his wand out again.
"Don't worry I wont tell" he smiled and soon lily and Sydney were floating up the stairs.
"Thanks you're a sweet heart" lily though to him.
"Ok so we get to do this 3 times a week?" lily asked once in the dorm.
"Well maybe we can find a spell to relive the ache and work out every day we don't have practice" Sydney suggested
"ya maybe we can get Renee and Veronica to do it with us."
"Good we can talk to them tomorrow."
By Halloween lily and Sydney were in the best shape on the team along with Renee and Veronica, they worked out everyday. The first Quidditch match was on Halloween. Lily and Sydney woke up like normal and went to get ready but every time they moved their arms sparks flew out. When they made it to the bathroom their hair was also constantly changing colors. They finally got to breakfast and the Mauraders swore they had nothing to do with it. They made their way to the changing rooms where Remus and peter said bye for the match and got changed. When Marcus walked in to give his speech he fell back in surprise.
"You-you cant play like that" he stuttered.
"Do you have any other ideas?" lily asked
"No" Marcus answered
"We've worked to hard not to play against Slytherin and we aren't breaking any rules" Sydney pointed out
"Well maybe you'll distract them" James said
"You two didn't do this did you?" Marcus turned on James and Sirius.
"You think we would do anything so that 2 people on the team wouldn't be able to play again Slytherin?" Sirius asked
"Then you don't know us" James finished
"Ya your right lets go" he stood up resignedly
"What no speech?" Renee asked
"I give up you know what to do" and he walked out.
The team walked out to Remus announcing "and here is the Gryffindor Quidditch team Mia (Marcus), LOVE (Renee), EVANS. POTTER, BLACK, POTTER AND POTTER!"
The team took a lap around the pitch. Lily and Sydney tried not to move their arms but couldn't help it. When they landed the Slytherin captain had a fit.
"They can't play like that madam those two cant play they will distract my team." He yelled.
"It isn't against the rules madam we are doing no magic we don't know what happened probably someone is Slytherin pranked us so we wouldn't be able to play" lily protested.
"Is that so" madam hooch asked lily and Sydney shook their heads "well did any of you do it?" she turned to the Slytherin team all shook there heads no.
5 minutes into the game lily was throwing the quaffel to James and a light streaked out of her hand and hit a member of the Slytherin team, he then grew wings. Sydney hit the bludger and a light shot out of her hand and hit one of the spectators. Soon the game had to be stopped because lights kept hitting people uncontrolablely and they were being hexed. Lily and Sydney landed and held their hands by there sides. The only people unaffected were Sirius, Remus, James and Dumbledore. Dumbledore took the 5 of them to his office to talk. All 5 were clueless as to what happened and wanted to know.
"Oh I should have seen this coming" he said
"What happened sir?" Sydney asked
"Well girls this day was very important in ancient times. It was the day when all priestess had to make sacrifices to the god they worshipped for the preservation of their powers and to thank them for thinking they were worthy to act as the voice of the gods." Dumbledore looked up at them.
"But what does that mean sir. Lily and Sydney don't worship the ancient gods so how could they be obligated to make sacrifice?" Remus asked
"Let me get to that. If you didn't make a sacrifice or the sacrifice you made was deemed unacceptable the gods would make your powers go haywire for a day as punishment and as a warning to make sure your sacrifice for the next year was worthy." Dumbledore explained further.
"But sir." Sirius started
"I am getting to it wait a little longer Mr. Black. The real witches who had the powers were the ones whose powers misbehaved. The two powers fight for dominance and in effect shoot out because the power surge is to much for the body to hold." He finished
"So dose that mean they will explode?" James asked
Dumbledore chuckled "no they wont explode they will just admit a very powerful aura."
"So this will happen every Halloween?" lily asked
"Yes but as you get older and more experienced it will not shoot out at random. You may cause spells to happen if you only think of them or make things explode. It is all personal to the witch that experiences it. It seems that Sydney and lily are very close because they had the same reaction today. You will lose control today because you could hurt someone or be hurt."
"Sir we weren't suppose to tell anyone about our powers what are we going to do now because they all saw?" Sydney asked
"Well I think that we will have to do a memory charm."
"But what about the Quidditch match? How will you explain that being stopped?" James asked
"We will just have to say that a rouge bludger attacked an official and the game was stopped to investigate who tampered with it."
"And I thought me and James were good at making excuses." Sirius said
"Well you will learn that sometimes a lie is better than the truth" Dumbledore countered. "Well I think you two need to stay away from the rest of the student population for the remainder of the day. And don't worry you didn't cause any permanent damage."
"Sir why weren't we affected? I know I got hit by at least 4 different lights" Sirius asked
"You already know that answer. It is because of your counter part to the magic. While the girls fight for domination your part takes over and is strengthened. Its like a balance when there's stronger yours weakens and when yours is stronger there's weaker. Well I believe you can find an empty classroom to stay in for a while I don't think you dorms are safe at the moment. If you will excuse me I have a few memories to modify. I believe Mr. Malfoy was turned into a pink bunny with a stick chasing ti to hit it." He let the children out of the room.
"You turned Malfoy into a rabbit? We need a picture" Sirius said
"You two go to the room with the potion well get a camera and be there soon." James ran off with Sirius and Remus
Quidditch, Quidditch, Quidditch and Disaster
Two weeks or to be more correct in James' words 13 days and 6 hours later the gryffindor team and people trying out were assembling on the quidditch pitch for tryouts. "Hello everyone and welcome to the gryffindor quidditch tryouts. First the beaters will tryout then the keepers, chasers and seekers. Last year most of our team graduated or will not be able to return so we have many openings. Good luck." Marcus said his voice booming around the pitch "Sirius black" was yelled and Sirius mounted his boom and sped to the person holding the bat. He was given instructions and the bat. He was to hit the blugers at the targets assigned to him. Then he would have to defend a person on his team from the blugers trying to hit them. Sirius was in the air for 15 minutes before he went and sat down again. He was sweating and out of breath. "Man those blugers are nasty." He said "Ya just like you" lily smiled "Sydney potter" was yelled and she got on her broom. She was given the same instructions as Sirius and preformed well. "That was easy" she said when she landed. They watched the other student's trying out for beater and Sirius and Sydney were the best by far. Next were keepers. Lily was trying out for the heck of it because she wasn't sure what she wanted but it didn't matter because they already had a keeper but had to have tryouts for the position anyways. "Lily Evans" was the second name called so she flew in the air and received her instructions. All she had to do was protect the goals and she would be fine. She did a good job and was done relatively soon. "Not bad Evans" Malfoy remarked as he sat down behind the group. "Shut it Malfoy no one asked you and why are you here in the first place you aren't in gryffindor thankfully. Of course you would never make it in anyways." James said Thankfully at that time he was called to tryout for chaser. He flew in the air and worked with the returning chaser. Next lily was called and the 3 of them worked together in a scrimmage against the keeper with blugers flying at them. When they were done they flew to the ground and took a seat watching the other chasers and students. When the tryouts were done they returned to the common room talking about what they saw. "Lily, James you two were the best chasers there." Sirius said "Thank you for your expert Quidditch opinion. I just hope I make it" lily said "You will do fine lils" James reassured her. "Well Sirius and Sydney were the best beaters but Sirius is like a human blugers so I bet if he got hit it would do no harm anyways." Remus laughed "That's not funny" Sirius scowled "but probably true" he added as an after thought. "So when are you getting up tomorrow to check the list?" lily asked "Well James will probably not go to sleep so I expect to be woken up pretty early" Sirius said with a strait face and they could tell he meant it. "I think I will get up like normal James will probably tell me if I make it or not." Lily said "True, to true." Sydney added "So what are we going to do if we make it?" lily asked "What do you mean?" remus looked at her "Well the team will have 4 2nd years on it. Won't it be a young team?" lily asked "Yes but 4 very good 2nd years" Marcus pointed out as he walked up. "I just wanted to say you 4 had a good tryout and I hope everything turns out how you want it to." And he walked away "What's that suppose to mean?" lily asked "Who knows" Sirius said a girl that looked to be a 5th year walked up. "Hi my names Renee I'm the other chaser for the quidditch team. Marcus does that every year. He likes to scare the people who tried out for the team to make them wonder if they made it or not. He normally only does it to the ones who were very good and will probably make it. You must have impressed him." She explained "Well thank you I guess. I hope I make it. It was fun flying with you. You are really good." Lily told her. "It will be a pleasure flying with the both of you if you make it this year." Renee said and walked off "I though me and Sirius were the only weird ones around here." James commented "but I guess not those two seem to be pretty bad also." "She was just being nice you doof" and Sydney hit him upside the head. "So what are we going to do now?" James asked "Well I already finished my homework for the next week so I think I will go to bed. You coming Sydney?" lily asked "Ya I think I will I'm kind of tired." Sydney and lily walked up the stairs to their room. The next morning lily was woken up by James jumping on her bed and Sydney was woken up by Sirius jumping on hers. "They posted the results come and look" James squealed "No its" lily passed to look at her clock "6 in the morning I can still sleep for an hour." And she rolled over "Go away" Sydney told them "No wake up and come and look at the list." Sirius ordered. They kept jumping until the girls got up.
"Fine get off my bed then" and lily pushed James off.
"Ouch that hurt" James complained rubbing his butt.
"Well you deserved it." Lily said
"Just come on and go down stairs!" James practically yelled
"Don't be so touchy" lily threw up her hands in defeat. "Some people just aren't morning people shesh" and she grinned at Sydney and Sirius as she ran down the stairs to get away from James.
When lily and Sydney made it down stairs 30 minutes later to the annoyance of Sirius and James there was a group in front of the Quidditch list. Lily and Sydney made their way to the front of the group they looked at the list. They saw their names and started jumping around.
"We made the team" they sang then ran over and gave Sirius and James kisses on the cheek.
Marcus stood on a table to get everyone's attention he was grinning. "Finally the last two members of our new team have graced us with their presence. I would like to say we will have an awesome team this year and win the cup!" there were cheers in the common room. "Now down to business practices start Wednesday. I devised a grueling," the team groaned, "workout schedule so that we will be in top physical condition this season. We lost last year to Ravenclaw on a slight technicality, anyone could mistake Professor Dumbledor's glasses for the snitch but this year our seeker had glasses she will wear to see the game and that will not happen again." More cheers were heard throughout the common room.
James walked over to his sister "I still don't see how you could have grabbed dumbledor's glasses." He shook his head.
"James leave her alone you have though I was Sirius without yours on" lily pointed out "and that is hard to do."
"I said I was sorry what else do you want me to do?" he threw up his hands.
"Leave veronica alone." Lily smiled
James and Sirius were on cloud nine for the next few days. Lily and Sydney were not far below them only on 5 or 6. They were brought down from the clouds by the first practice. They were early to the changing rooms. They changed and met the rest of the team.
"Ok now down to business this year we will be practicing harder to be ready for anything. Our first game is against Slytherin so we need to be ready." Marcus started "today we will be working on fitness on and off the broom. You need to get your whole body in shape. The first 2 weeks we will do it as a team but after that I expect you to do it on your own. Now lets get started."
The team went out but before they even got on their brooms they had to run 2 laps around the pitch then do stadium steps for a good kickoff. Next Marcus had them get on their brooms and sent them through a rigorous course in the air. Finally an hour later they started practicing their positions. The chasers had to work on formations and moves. The beaters were hitting bludgers at targets. The keeper was practicing the goals from the chasers and the seeker was diving. After another hour Marcus had them do 200 crunches and they had to do pushups. When the practice was done the team dragged themselves to the locker rooms and a quick shower. They then dragged themselves to the common room and collapsed.
"Wow he is insane" Sirius said
"No you just out of shape" lily said
"You and Sydney cant give us that you are both exhausted also." James pointed out.
"At least we can hold our heads off the ground" Sirius and James were lying on the rug spread out they didn't make it to the couch.
"Ha ha that's what you think" James said he tried to get up but couldn't move. "Remus a little help" Remus smiled them waved his wand and James and Sirius were floating to their room. Lily and Sydney laughed then went to get up but couldn't.
"Remus?" they asked he smiled and pulled his wand out again.
"Don't worry I wont tell" he smiled and soon lily and Sydney were floating up the stairs.
"Thanks you're a sweet heart" lily though to him.
"Ok so we get to do this 3 times a week?" lily asked once in the dorm.
"Well maybe we can find a spell to relive the ache and work out every day we don't have practice" Sydney suggested
"ya maybe we can get Renee and Veronica to do it with us."
"Good we can talk to them tomorrow."
By Halloween lily and Sydney were in the best shape on the team along with Renee and Veronica, they worked out everyday. The first Quidditch match was on Halloween. Lily and Sydney woke up like normal and went to get ready but every time they moved their arms sparks flew out. When they made it to the bathroom their hair was also constantly changing colors. They finally got to breakfast and the Mauraders swore they had nothing to do with it. They made their way to the changing rooms where Remus and peter said bye for the match and got changed. When Marcus walked in to give his speech he fell back in surprise.
"You-you cant play like that" he stuttered.
"Do you have any other ideas?" lily asked
"No" Marcus answered
"We've worked to hard not to play against Slytherin and we aren't breaking any rules" Sydney pointed out
"Well maybe you'll distract them" James said
"You two didn't do this did you?" Marcus turned on James and Sirius.
"You think we would do anything so that 2 people on the team wouldn't be able to play again Slytherin?" Sirius asked
"Then you don't know us" James finished
"Ya your right lets go" he stood up resignedly
"What no speech?" Renee asked
"I give up you know what to do" and he walked out.
The team walked out to Remus announcing "and here is the Gryffindor Quidditch team Mia (Marcus), LOVE (Renee), EVANS. POTTER, BLACK, POTTER AND POTTER!"
The team took a lap around the pitch. Lily and Sydney tried not to move their arms but couldn't help it. When they landed the Slytherin captain had a fit.
"They can't play like that madam those two cant play they will distract my team." He yelled.
"It isn't against the rules madam we are doing no magic we don't know what happened probably someone is Slytherin pranked us so we wouldn't be able to play" lily protested.
"Is that so" madam hooch asked lily and Sydney shook their heads "well did any of you do it?" she turned to the Slytherin team all shook there heads no.
5 minutes into the game lily was throwing the quaffel to James and a light streaked out of her hand and hit a member of the Slytherin team, he then grew wings. Sydney hit the bludger and a light shot out of her hand and hit one of the spectators. Soon the game had to be stopped because lights kept hitting people uncontrolablely and they were being hexed. Lily and Sydney landed and held their hands by there sides. The only people unaffected were Sirius, Remus, James and Dumbledore. Dumbledore took the 5 of them to his office to talk. All 5 were clueless as to what happened and wanted to know.
"Oh I should have seen this coming" he said
"What happened sir?" Sydney asked
"Well girls this day was very important in ancient times. It was the day when all priestess had to make sacrifices to the god they worshipped for the preservation of their powers and to thank them for thinking they were worthy to act as the voice of the gods." Dumbledore looked up at them.
"But what does that mean sir. Lily and Sydney don't worship the ancient gods so how could they be obligated to make sacrifice?" Remus asked
"Let me get to that. If you didn't make a sacrifice or the sacrifice you made was deemed unacceptable the gods would make your powers go haywire for a day as punishment and as a warning to make sure your sacrifice for the next year was worthy." Dumbledore explained further.
"But sir." Sirius started
"I am getting to it wait a little longer Mr. Black. The real witches who had the powers were the ones whose powers misbehaved. The two powers fight for dominance and in effect shoot out because the power surge is to much for the body to hold." He finished
"So dose that mean they will explode?" James asked
Dumbledore chuckled "no they wont explode they will just admit a very powerful aura."
"So this will happen every Halloween?" lily asked
"Yes but as you get older and more experienced it will not shoot out at random. You may cause spells to happen if you only think of them or make things explode. It is all personal to the witch that experiences it. It seems that Sydney and lily are very close because they had the same reaction today. You will lose control today because you could hurt someone or be hurt."
"Sir we weren't suppose to tell anyone about our powers what are we going to do now because they all saw?" Sydney asked
"Well I think that we will have to do a memory charm."
"But what about the Quidditch match? How will you explain that being stopped?" James asked
"We will just have to say that a rouge bludger attacked an official and the game was stopped to investigate who tampered with it."
"And I thought me and James were good at making excuses." Sirius said
"Well you will learn that sometimes a lie is better than the truth" Dumbledore countered. "Well I think you two need to stay away from the rest of the student population for the remainder of the day. And don't worry you didn't cause any permanent damage."
"Sir why weren't we affected? I know I got hit by at least 4 different lights" Sirius asked
"You already know that answer. It is because of your counter part to the magic. While the girls fight for domination your part takes over and is strengthened. Its like a balance when there's stronger yours weakens and when yours is stronger there's weaker. Well I believe you can find an empty classroom to stay in for a while I don't think you dorms are safe at the moment. If you will excuse me I have a few memories to modify. I believe Mr. Malfoy was turned into a pink bunny with a stick chasing ti to hit it." He let the children out of the room.
"You turned Malfoy into a rabbit? We need a picture" Sirius said
"You two go to the room with the potion well get a camera and be there soon." James ran off with Sirius and Remus