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A/N: Thanks for all the reviews! I hope you like this chapter!

A/N 2: Sorry if what I add is a bit depressing… I'm kind of depressed today… So, here it is chapter 5 revisited… (Oh, BTW, PotterChick1~Don't worry, you'll still be my number one reviewer if you don't review the re-writes)

Eventually, hours turned into days and days turned into weeks and before Lily knew it, she and James had gone from really awkward to awkward and then back to normal. The problem with back to normal was that she wished he would act the way he had. When she had realized for a second that he was much more than a simple idiot. Sure, he was still being nice to her, but he had always been, but for just a moment, she had seen beneath his usual joking exterior and seen the real James Potter. She missed that James.

Today was the day of the first Gryffindor quidditch match. Lily really didn't care. She liked quidditch, but she really wasn't in the mood to go sit in the stands and watch people fly around today. She had promised Ava she would go though and she always kept her word, which is why one early Saturday morning in late October, she could be found in the Great Hall eating breakfast and wearing scarlet and gold with the rest of the school who were all excited about the first match.

Looking around, she saw James, Sirius, Frank, Eliza, and the rest of the quidditch team sitting in a secluded corner with James showing them plays on a magic play-board. Remus and Peter were sitting a few seats away, eating breakfast and looking as though if James and Sirius hadn't dragged them out of bed, they would still be fast asleep. Lily was sitting halfway down the table with Ava and Marie.

"Lily, why is Snape looking at you like that?" Marie asked in disgust. Snape was, as a matter of fact, staring at Lily.

Lily looked up and looked around, confused. Why would Severus be looking at her?

"What? Where?" Lily asked as she continued to look around in bewilderment. Great, another stalker. That was all she needed.

"He's looking at you with a look like the one James gets on his face when he looks at you," Ava said with a sigh before taking a sip of orange juice. Why on earth did Lily get all the admirers. Ok, she was pretty and ok, she was one of the nicest people alive… Then again, Ave really wouldn't want her pseudo-brother and Snape to be obsessed with her. Also, Ava did get plenty of guys.

"Great, stalker number two," Lily said in a disheartened voice as she went back to her scrambled eggs. They tasted like cardboard today. Lily was not in the best of moods.

"Now, Sirius and Dave, I want both of you covering the chasers," James said as he pointed to his quidditch-play board across the Great Hall. James was feeling pretty confident about today's game. They were, afterall, only playing Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff's were pushovers at everything.

 Sirius and Dave were both beaters. James prodded the board with his wand to show the formation he wanted the team in.

"But, James, shouldn't one of us cover the seeker—you know, you?" Dave, a fourth year asked.

"Dave, so young, so senile," James said with a sigh. He wanted to be able to move around without a person with a stick constantly shadowing him. "I don't want you drawing attention to me."

"Really, Dave, it's not rocket science," Sirius said, speaking for the first time that morning; he had been too busy shoving food in his mouth to speak. "James, have a piece of toast," Sirius said through mouthful.

 James looked from Sirius to the piece of toast and back again. He never ate before a quidditch match. It made him feel nauseous. He had made the mistake of eating before his first quidditch match. The opposite teams seeker had not been very pleased about being covered in vomit.

"Frank," James said, turning to Frank, "I want you to do everything you can to keep Hufflepuff from scoring." James told Frank, the keeper.

It was common knowledge that as a seventh year, Frank should've been captain, but McGonagall chose James instead for an unknown reason. Most people thought it was either because Frank would be leaving that year or because James was a better player. The real reason was that James never let anyone down.

Frank nodded in response.

"If we're done now, can I go sit with Bellatrix?" Frank asked, beckoning across the room to the Ravenclaw table to where Bellatrix was having breakfast with her friends.

 Sirius shook his head in disgust. She embodied the word evil. She would probably grow up to be a murderer.

"Whatever," James said as he turned to the chasers: Eliza, a third year named Angelle, and fifth year named Trinity. "Just try and score as much as you can." If, by chance, Hufflepuff managed to get 150 points, Gryffindor would need more points than the snitch was worth to win.

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"Is it really necessary for Bellatrix to sit with us?" Lily whispered into Ava's ear. She was sitting with Ava, Marie, Remus, Peter, and Bellatrix in the stands and were waiting for the match to start. Lily did not like Bellatrix. Bellatrix was always making rude remarks about Lily's parents. It did not really hurt Lily's feelings or anything, just got under her skin.

Ava giggled. She could not—for anything—see what Frank saw in Bellatrix. Sirius was quite right in calling her evil.

"She's trying to support Frank," Ava whispered in a mocking voice. Ava also thought that Bellatrix was just using Frank.

"She creeps me out," Lily whispered back. She would not put it past Bellatrix to use an unforgivable curse on someone if provoked. "I mean think about all Sirius has said about her." Lily said before sitting back and looking around. The quidditch pitch was still empty and the weather outside was perfect. There was a slight breeze, but not a cloud in the sky.

"Guys—and girls," James added at mean look Eliza gave him, "Try to do your best and try to win, but remember, this is just the first match of the season, if we loose, we'll just try harder next time. Just remember what I told you and I'm sure we'll do fine," James said when they were in the locker room right before the match. James could hear the school cheering outside and could feel his stomach doing flip-flops. He tried to remind himself that he had nothing to worry about; it was only Hufflepuff, but his brain did not seem to be listening.

"Yeah, that's easy for you to say, all you have to do is circle the field," Sirius said sarcastically as they all shouldered their brooms and began to walk out. Sirius liked being a beater. It enabled him to take his anger out on a bludgers.

"And now for the Gryffindor team, Longbottom, Abercrombie, Spinnet, Noelle, Abbot, and Potter," Bill Weasley screamed enthusiastically as the Gryffindor team flew out onto the quidditch pitch and hovered in the air. Bill Weasley was a first year who had originally tried out—against the odds—for the place of Gryffindor chaser. The spot had been given to Angelle Spinnet.

"Look, they're starting," Ava said excitedly. Everyone looked at her like it were the most obvious thing in the world. Ava didn't care though. Having been raised in a wizarding family and having grown up watching the sport, she loved it!

"Thank you for stating the obvious, Labeau," Bellatrix said while rolling her eyes.

Ava made a rude gesture directed at Bellatrix.

"Why's Snivelly looking at you again?" Marie asked, ignoring Bellatrix's comment.

Lily looked around to find Snape looking at her from a few seats lower. He wasn't just casually looking at her this time. He was turned around in his seat for the sole purpose of looking at her. This made Lily feel a little bit uncomfortable.

"Snivelly has a crush on Lily?" Peter asked excitedly. "Sirius and James are going to have a field day with that." James would curse Snape to the ends of the earth if he found out that Snape liked Lily and Sirius would push him off the edge.

Lily tuned them out and went back to watching the game. She did not feel like hearing her friends discussing her love life as though she were not there.

"And Spinnet in possession, now Euan, oh and Euan scores, making the score 30-20 in favor of Hufflepuff," Bill babbled on and on.

The game went on like this for quite a while. As it was beginning to get dark, James started to look as though he had seen something and began to dive. Everyone watched in excitement. James silently willed his broom to go faster and faster. Before he got to it, a bludger came his way and he had to spin his broom out of the way. When he looked back, the little golden ball was gone.

James had been hovering around for a while now, looking for the snitch. He was starting to think he would never find it. He just kept looking and looking and now that it was getting dark, looking for the snitch was getting harder.

"James, come on, my arms are getting tired!" Sirius said as he flew by with the beater stick in his hands on his way to hit the bludger towards a Hufflepuff player. Sirius was ready—like James and the rest of the players—for the game to end. They had been going on for hours now.

"Sorry for the inconvenience," James shouted sarcastically after Sirius's back. James sighed and went back to looking around.

 The score was now 170 to 20 in favor of Hufflepuff. Everyone had thought they would be a pushover, but that damn Diggory guy was better than anyone would have guessed. James tried harder to look for the snitch. If he caught it now, the score would be tied. They had been playing for almost three hours now and he was starting to think a tie would be better than to play late into the night. As it got darker and darker, it got harder to play. Not only was it difficult for him, the beaters were having trouble seeing the bludgers. The chasers were having trouble seeing the goals. The keeper was having trouble seeing the quaffle.

 He looked around and caught a glimpse of something. A head of bright red hair.

"No, James, pull yourself together," James called out suddenly, slapping himself in the face. He had to look for the snitch, now was not the time to oogle Lily. He looked around for another few minutes. The score was still the same, but it was getting darker by the minute.

James looked and looked and then tried to keep his eyes on the Hufflepuff seeker. Finally, as the sun's last rays were shown, he saw the glint of gold he had been looking for the entire day. The golden snitch. It was hovering on Hufflepuff's side of the pitch.

He pulled into a dive and accelerated towards the snitch.

"I think he sees it!" Remus said excitedly. As a fan, he was getting pretty tired from cheering. These feelings probably couldn't even compare to those of the players on the pitch.

"Nice deduction, Sherlock," Bellatrix said as she examined her nails.

Lily looked up. She had had enough of Bellatrix's stupid, smart-ass comments. Bellatrix had insulted her and her friends one too many times in one day.

"Bellatrix, if you don't want to sit with us, then why don't you go sit with your own house?" Lily asked, looking her right into her Sirius-clone eyes. Lily was doing what she was best known for—standing up for others.

"Because Ravenclaw might get suspicious if I cheered too much for Gryffindor," Bellatrix said as though it were obvious.

"Then, why don't you go sit with Slytherin? It's where you belong anyway," Ava said in a mocking voice. Ava had had enough as well. She was sweaty, tired, and sick of cheering. Now was not the time to mess with her.

Everyone in their little group turned around to watch what would presumably be a fight between the infamously strong-willed Ava and the ice queen Bellatrix.

"At least I don't hang out with little mudbloods," Bellatrix said coolly.

Everyone in the little group gasped except Lily. Bellatrix was talking about her, but she didn't care.

"Isn't it a pity that us so called 'mudbloods' are so much smarter and more talented than you inbred purebloods?" Lily asked with a glint in her eye and a smirk on her face. She was sitting with a group of purebloods, but knew that they wouldn't mind.

Bellatrix looked at her with an evil look on her face, but she was cut off by Weasley.

"Potter seems to have seen the snitch!" Bill Weasley said excitedly.

Everyone looked towards the field where James was diving in the direction of Hufflepuff's side. Hufflepuff's seeker tried to race James, but James was too fast and too good. He flew all the way to the other side and caught the snitch just as Hufflepuff scored a goal.

"Potter caught the snitch, but because of a last minute goal by Hufflepuff, Hufflefuff wins," Bill said as the crowd let out a disappointed sigh.

James held the snitch in his hand as he lowered the broomstick towards the ground. All his teammates were on the ground waiting for him, trying to look happy. He had let them down and he knew it. He should've waited. He hit ground and got off of his broomstick, shoulders hanging.

"That was an awesome catch," Eliza squealed, giving him a hug.

James winced, it was his fault they had lost. He should have caught it the first time. Should have caught it after the chasers had time to score. He had let his team down. James Potter did not let people down.

"James, cheer up, like you said, we still have time to win the cup," Frank said with an encouraging smile.

"You're too hard on yourself. You did all you could. It's that stupid Amos Diggory, we would've won. Don't take it so seriously, mate," Sirius barked, clapping James on the shoulder as the team trudged back up towards the castle. He knew what James would do. James would be pissed off at himself for weeks and absolutely intolerable to live with. It was what James did when he let others down.

"No, it's that stupid James Potter," James said with a sigh, still clasping the snitch in his hand.

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