Tricks Troubles and Tantrums-
Chapter 4 - Quidditch

Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter and I don't want to either - I just want all JK Rowling's money coz what's she gonna do with it anywayz?

4 Lauren

Chapter 4

"Lauren" Lauren stirred slightly as she heard Emma calling her name

"Mmmmn?" Lauren murmured

"It's 8:30" Emma told her "If you don't get up now you'll miss the Quidditch match and I think Sirius would prefer it if you were there" Emma finished with a smile

"8:30!" Lauren shrieked, "Why didn't anyone wake me up already?"

"Would you have preferred if I'd just left you there to sleep?" Emma said sarcastically

"No, thanks but, 8:30! I'm never up this late" Lauren exclaimed

"C'mon, I'm going down to breakfast now but if you want I'll wait for you" Emma told her

"Kaya, thanks" Lauren smiled "I'll just be a sec"

A couple of minutes later, Lauren and Emma walked down the stairs to the common room where they found Remus waiting for Emma in one of the chairs by the fire

"Morning" Remus greeted her, kissing her on the cheek

"Oh, don't I get a proper kiss" Emma pretended to be upset as Remus tried not to laugh

"Sorry" Remus apologised before kissing her properly as Lauren pretended to be sick

"Oh, well if that's your general opinion I guess you won't be wanting to see me then will you?" Lauren jumped as Sirius came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist

"And why wouldn't I?" Lauren asked

Sirius shrugged as she turned around and kissed him

As Emma shook her head in mock disbelief Remus turned to her "By the way, next time you see your sister, tell her she's a liar"

"Okay!?!" Emma said, confused "Why?"

"Coz she told me you'd be down in a couple of minutes" Remus told her "That was about an hour ago"

"Hey!" Emma punched him softly on the arm "What's that supposed to mean"

"That your sister's a liar" Remus replied "C'mon, I'm starving - have been for the past hour or so"

"Hey" Emma objected as Remus put his arm around her shoulder

"I'm joking" he insisted "Really. I am hungry though"

"Ditto" Sirius agreed

"You already had breakfast" Remus reminded him

"Mmmn, so?" Sirius didn't see why that was a problem

Remus shook his head as they walked over to the portrait hole and down to breakfast

"Hey" Laura greeted them as they sat down next to her

"Hey" they replied

"Where's James 'n' Lily?" Remus asked

"Went for a walk" Laura told him "James is really nervous for some reason"

"Watch out" Remus whispered loudly to Emma "She's probably lying"

As Emma giggled, Laura rolled her eyes

"So what happened to you?" she asked her sister "You go back to sleep or something?"

As Emma shot her a dirty look, Remus grinned "Oh, so she's not the liar here"

As Laura turned to talk to Lauren, she saw that Sirius had piled food on his plate extremely high

Laura looked at him pointedly "Didn't you already eat breakfast twice this morning?" she asked

"Mmmn" Sirius replied with a mouthful of food

"Okay" Laura shrugged and looked at Lauren with a smile "Just a warning for you, he's got a bottomless pit for a stomach!" she said

Lauren looked slightly alarmed as Sirius turned to her and swallowed his mouthful

"Not true babe" he shook his head, turning to Laura "Memba that time at the all you can eat pizza place? I got full then"

"No, they just ran out of food" Laura smiled "Well I'm off now. See you at the match"

"C'ya" Remus waved goodbye "And thanks" he finished as Emma punched him again

"Uh, yeah, c'ya" Lauren said vaguely, watching Sirius in disbelief as he shoved another mouthful of food into his mouth

"Heya Emma, what's the time?" Remus asked, looking at Sirius thoughtfully

"Quarter to nine" Emma replied as Sirius looked up in shock

"Oh god, I gotta be there in five minutes" Sirius said hurriedly "C'ya babe" he kissed Lauren on the cheek and left the hall

Lauren turned to Emma and Remus "So did he really once make a place run out of food?" she asked, concerned

"Nah, not as far as we know but it's possible" Remus shrugged "They just like to tease each other. Messing with each others minds I think they call it. If you ask me there's nothing there to mess with"

"Sirius doesn't have one so that he has more room for food..." Emma said sarcastically

"And Laura, well it runs in the family" Remus finished

"Hey!" Emma objected as Lauren smiled

"Come on, lets go get ready so we can get some good seats" Remus suggested, changing the subject before he got punched in the arm again

"Kaya" Lauren agreed, getting up with Emma right behind her

As they walked up the stairs to the dorm, they met Lily and Laura coming down the other way

"Hey Lily" Emma said "I see you've met my evil twin"

Laura and Lauren both started laughing as Lily looked confused

"What?" Lily asked as Laura wiped tears of laughter out of her eyes and shook her head

"Em's just pissed coz she went back to sleep this morning when Remus was waiting for her" Laura told Lily, starting to laugh again

"Oh" Lily shrugged "Well are you all gonna stand here laughing or come to the match?"

"I've never seen you so excited about going to a Quidditch match before Lils" Emma told her in amazement

"Well..." Lily blushed

"Well that's coz you weren't going out with James before" Emma finished

"Well, yes" Lily agreed

"Can we go now?" Laura asked, noticing that Lauren's eyes had narrowed since they started talking about James

"Great idea!" Lauren agreed enthusiastically as they started walking down the stairs leaving Emma and Lily standing there confused

"What's up with her?" Lily asked, screwing up her nose in disgust

"Dunno" Emma replied "Come on, lets go"

As they walked across the lawn through the crowd of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw coloured scarves, banners and other stuff, Lauren's face continued to be rather stormy until they got up into the stands and saw the two teams practicing

Seeing Sirius, Lauren's face broke into a grin and she waved as he turned around and saw her

Flying over to hover above them, Sirius gently landed on an empty seat beside Lauren and gave her a kiss, causing many of the girls around to look on jealously

Laura smiled to herself and turned around when someone sat down beside her

"Hey!" Laura smiled as she saw Will "I didn't see you this morning, what time did you get up?"

"Six" Will said casually

"S-six? As in am?" Laura exclaimed "You're insane!!"

Will shrugged "And the problem with that is?"

"Nothing" Laura shook her head "It's just... 6am!"

"Sirius Black, this is NOT the time to be chatting up the girls" They all jumped as the Gryffindor team captain Jessica Bell flew over to hover above their heads

"Aaw Jess..." Sirius started to complain but she cut him off

"No Sirius, you'll have plenty of time for this after we win the game, which we won't do unless you get out there and practice" Jessica said sharply "Now move!" With that she flew away to practice as Sirius rolled his eyes

"Sorry babe, gotta go" he kissed Lauren on the cheek, picked up his club and flew away

Lauren sighed and turned to see Laura and Will talking to each other and Emma, Remus and Lily walking down the row to meet them

"Hey Lauren" Emma greeted her cheerfully

"Hey" Lauren smiled at them then realised Lily was glaring at her

"What's wrong with her?" Lauren whispered to Emma as she sat down beside her

"Thinks you're all stuck up coz you wanted to leave so badly before" Emma told her

"O-kaay" Lauren replied

"Why did you want to leave like that anyway?" Emma asked

"Hmmm, maybe the conversation had something to do with it" Lauren suggested

"Oh" Emma sighed, unable to remember what they had been talking about but not wanting to bring it up again by asking

"And as Madam Hooch walks onto the field, the players take their positions" Sam Jordan, the Quidditch commentator's voice rang through the stadium "And they're off"

As they all turned to watch the game, the conversation stopped as the Gryffindor Chaser Catherine Brown got the Quaffle

"Catherine Brown from Gryffindor has the Quaffle, nice dodge around Ravenclaw captain Edgar Boyle, passes to Jessica Bell who dodges a bludger and shoots. Jake Fletcher dives and misses - 10 points to Gryffindor!"

The Gryffindor spectators cheered as Ravenclaw chaser Gwendoline Marks took the Quaffle and sped off down the pitch

"Gwendoline Marks with the Quaffle now, dodges Olivia Baker and passes to Grant Smythe. Ooh nice bludger there from Gryffindor's Sirius Black. Smythe drops the Quaffle and its picked up by Catherine Brown who has a clear path down the pitch.

Catherine shoots and scores! Another 10 points to Gryffindor!"

As the crowd cheered again, James launched into a dive, Ravenclaw seeker Anita Kelvington right behind him as Anthony Reddling, the Ravenclaw Beater whacked a Bludger in his direction.

It narrowly missed James' face, causing him to lose sight of the Snitch

He flew back up into the air where Ravenclaw had scored once making the score now 20-10 to Gryffindor

"Bad luck James" Sirius said, flying past him to smash a Bludger in the direction of the Ravenclaw captain who was getting closer to Jessica who had the Quaffle and was flying towards the goalposts

"And Jessica Bell shoots, and it's knocked off course by Fletcher. Picked up by Brown. Catherine Brown of Gryffindor fakes a pass and shoots - 10 points to Gryffindor

The crowd roared as Catherine did a loop in the air and flew back down the other end

"And I think Potter's spotted the Snitch again. James Potter launches into a beeline towards the Ravenclaw goals. Anita Kelvington turns to try and catch up to him but he's probably too far ahead already"

The crowd held their breath as Blake Grending hit a bludger in James' direction

As his hand grasped the Snitch, James got smacked in the stomach by Grending's bludger, knocking the wind out of him and causing him to slip of his broom and crash into the ground below with a thud

Lily screamed as Lauren clasped her hand to her mouth in horror

Sirius immediately flew down to James as Madam Hooch landed and ran across to him, still lying exactly where he'd landed

There was complete silence as the whole crowd watched Madam Hooch bend down and inspect James before conjuring up a stretcher and levitating him out of the stadium to the hospital wing

As they left, Emma, Remus, Laura and Will all turned to look at Lily who was extremely pale and had tears pouring silently down her face

"Come on Lil, we'll take you to the hospital wing" Emma suggested quietly

Lily nodded and stood up shakily as Emma and Remus helped her to walk out of the stadium

Laura went to follow then saw Lauren still had her hand clasped to her mouth and was even more pale than Lily had been

"You coming?" Laura asked

"I... I... I need to talk to you... in private" Lauren stammered

"Okay" Laura said wondering what was wrong

As they walked slowly through the crowds of people, Lauren still stayed very pale and didn't say anything

Sitting under the tree by the lake, Lauren burst into tears. Laura put her arm around her shoulders

"Hey, Sweetie, what's wrong?" she asked gently

"Last night, I, I had this dream that, that James got hit in the stomach by a bludger and, and fell off his broom" Lauren sobbed "And now the exact same thing just happened"

"Hey, shhh, don't cry" Laura gave her a hug and stroked her hair "It's okay"

After sitting there for a while, Lauren stopped crying and wiped her eyes on her sleeve "And now Emma says Lily thinks I'm all stuck up coz I wanted to leave so badly before" she concluded

"Oh, so that's why she was acting so weirdly before" Laura realised "You want me to talk to her?"

"Okay, but don't tell her about my dream" Lauren asked "She'll probly think it was my fault"

"Kay, but I doubt that" Laura replied "But if you don't want me to tell her I won't"

As they sat there for a while longer it started to rain so they got up and started to walk inside where they met Emma talking to Natalie in the common room

"Madam Pomfrey said he's been hurt pretty bad" she told them "Says it'll be a couple of days before the pain goes away even with her best potions and he won't be able to fly for at least 6 weeks"

"Six weeks! But who's gonna be seeker?" Natalie asked

"They don't know" Emma replied "Jess said they'll have to have tryouts this week sometime"

"Well at least it's Hufflepuff - Slytherin next weekend, they'll at least have like, a week extra practice" Natalie said

"Mmmn" Emma sighed

"How's Lily?" Natalie asked

"Not good" Emma told her sadly "She's absolutely hysterical, especially since she's not allowed to go in and see him yet"

Just then the portrait hole opened and Sirius and Remus came through, supporting Lily who's eyes were all red and bloodshot from crying

"Oh god Lily, are you okay?" Natalie asked nervously

"Lily?" Emma said when she didn't answer

"Leave. Me. Alone." Lily hissed before stalking up the stairs to the dorm and crying herself to sleep

"Oh dear" Natalie sighed "This is not good"

"No" Emma agreed

The mood in the Gryffindor common room that evening was very quiet and solemn when Professor McGonagall came to collect Sirius and Remus

Half and hour later, they walked through the portrait hole with a tired and weak looking James who sat down on a chair by the fire painfully

"Lily" he whispered "Get Lily"

Laura got up and went to the 6th year girls dorm where she found Lily lying on her bed asleep

"Lily" she whispered softly "Lily wake up"

Lily rolled over and glared at her "Oh, it's you" she sneered "What do you want?"

Laura shot her a dirty look then faked a smile "James is down in the common room" Laura told her, ignoring the previous comment "He wants to see you"

Lily sat up eagerly "He's okay?" she asked excitedly

"He's still in pain and needs lots of rest but he wants to see you" Laura replied as Lily leapt up and ran to the door and down the stairs, not even listening to her

"James!" she exclaimed happily as soon as she saw him "You're alright!!"

"Yeah" James winced as he leant up and kissed her on the cheek

"Come on, let's leave these two to it" Emma suggested as Jessica walked down the staircase and pinned a notice to the board

GRYFFINDOR QUIDDITCH TRYOUTS

THIS TUESDAY 6PM ON THE PITCH

REPLACEMENT SEEKER ONLY

NOT PERMANENT POSITION

They all read the notice and Sirius looked at Laura hopefully when no-one else was watching

"NO" she mouthed as he turned to Jessica

"Does the rest of the team have to be there as well?" he asked

"Yes" she replied shortly "I want someone who fits in with everyone else"

"Okay" Sirius murmured as they went to sit down "Hey Lauren, you any good at flying?" he asked hopefully

"Nup" Lauren grinned "Last time I was on a broom, well lets just say I can't remember anything about the week after"

Sirius raised his eyebrows "Really?"

"Yep" Lauren smirked "Whole school knew bout it. Most exciting thing that'd happened there in years"

"YOU were the most exciting thing that happened there EVER" Will told her "Or do you not remember that either?"

Lauren glared at him as everyone watched to see what would happen next

"Well it's true isn't it?" Will asked

"Well yes, but..." Lauren started

Will grinned "Told you so"

Lauren glared at him again

"What on earth did you do?" Sirius asked, dark eyes gleaming excitedly

"Ummmmm" Lauren started, looking at Will in terror

"Flying chairs, Tapdancing shoes, Multi-coloured flashing hair, Backwards walking people, Green itchy spots, That invisible hole in the floor, Hissing noises in the dungeons, The lake on fire" Will took a breath before continuing, "Ghosts that flickered in and out of sight, Ugly mirrors, Out of control brooms, Those creepy orange alien things, Doors that knocked when no-one was there, Screaming books, The fire-breathing cat" Will stopped again and looked at Lauren pointedly "You need me to continue?"

Lauren looked at him smugly" You forgot the snow"

"Which one?" Will asked "The purple snow outside or the blue snowflakes falling from the roof inside?"

Sirius looked at Lauren in amazement "You really did all that?"

"Mmmn" Lauren replied modestly "But that place was so BORING!!" she rolled her eyes "It needed some livening up"

"What happened to the fire-breathing cat?" Laura asked

"She's probly upstairs, asleep on my bed" Lauren replied "You want me to go get her?"

"Yeah!" Natalie said excitedly

"Okay, if you insist" Lauren got up and walked up the staircase, coming back down a few minutes later holding a black cat in her arms

"I didn't know you had a cat" Sirius said, amazed

"Really? Well then Sirius this is Midnight, Midnight - Sirius" Lauren introduced them with a smile

"Hi Midnight" Sirius held out his hand. Midnight blinked at him then stuck out a paw. Sirius looked surprised then shook hands with the cat as everyone else watched in silence

"Woah" Remus was shocked "I've never seen a cat that can shake hands before"

"Yeah well Midnight's a pretty smart cat" Lauren told him

"Watch out Moony, you got competition" Sirius grinned

"Yes Padfoot, my main competition is from a CAT." Remus replied "That's not saying much for you"

"So anyway when's it gonna breathe fire" Laura asked, trying not to laugh

"Yeah, c'mon cat, like, do your trick already" Natalie complained

"Leave the poor thing alone" Emma told her "Ever thought it might not want to at the moment?"

"HEY" Sirius burst out "That's not very nice Moony"

"You mean you JUST got it?" Remus asked as everyone burst out laughing

"Yes" Sirius replied then noticed everyone was laughing at him "I mean No"

"Sirius if your head was any thicker, I reckon it'd be solid" Laura told him, tears of laughter rolling down her cheeks

"Well, well at least I'm not a, a, a," Sirius started, frantically trying to think of something to call her

"A what?" Laura tilted her head and looked at him amusedly

"A, a, a" Sirius stammered

"A bella strega" Lauren suggested

( i apologize if that's not right, that's just what my dictionary said it was )

"Yeah, a bella strega" Sirius concluded

"I should hope not" Laura laughed "But thank you all the same"

Sirius looked at her confusedly then turned to Lauren "What DID that mean?" he asked nervously

"Oh, do you not speak Italian?" Laura pretended to be sorry for him

"Italian?" Sirius asked "Like they speak in Italy?"

"Yeah" Lauren replied "Exactly"

"Oh" Sirius went silent (not something that happened very often)

"Can you make the cat breathe fire now" Laura asked impatiently

"Okay, okay" Lauren shook her head, laughing

Putting the cat on the table in front of her, Lauren raised her wand

"Felina flama, felina flama, felina flamanina" she chanted softly as a bolt of blue shot from the end of her wand and hit Midnight, disappearing immediately

Midnight opened her jaws widely and a yellow-orange flame shot from her mouth, narrowly missing hitting Emma who screamed

"S'okay" Lauren reassured her, "It's not a real flame"

Just then, Midnight jumped off Lauren's lap and leapt onto Lily's head, clawing at her hair and putting a long scratch mark down one cheek

Lily screamed as everyone else watched and Lauren attempted not to laugh when all of a sudden, Lily grabbed hold of Midnight and threw her across the room

Lauren shrieked and ran across the room where she picked up the cat and stroked it

"You bitch" Lily screamed and walked across the room to where Lauren was standing and lifted her arm to slap her

Grabbing hold of her arm, Lauren hissed "I wouldn't do that if I were you, I really wouldn't" and threw the arm away

Lily glared at her then turned and stalked out the portrait hole

Lauren walked back over to the couch and sat down, teeth clenched, stroking her cat

"Hey, I got an idea" Sirius said eagerly, "Follow me"

He stood up and pulled Lauren up as everyone else watched on in interest

"I meant you guys too" Sirius said as if it was the most obvious thing on earth

Everyone else stood up and followed him out through the portrait hole where he led them to a corridor with a plain panelled wall

Remus' eyes lit up, as did Emma's and Laura's

"Welcome Lauren, to the Room of Requirement" Sirius said grandly

Lauren looked confused "It's... a wall"

"Ah, but it's what's beyond the wall that's amazing"


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