The next morning, Hermione snuck back to her dorm around 4am, nobody really took notice of her absence.

It was Saturday so most students slept in until about 10:00. All except of course, the gryffindor Quidditch team. Harry had this horrible tendency to run them ragged right before a match. SO he had he team meet him "in the air" at 6:30. In other words, they had to be up at 5:00. Surprisingly, when they got there, Ron was actually there ON TIME! (he had stayed awake after Hermione left him, but noone else knew that) So the team had a bit of a shock.
When Harry started practice, He went through the strategy's for the chasers, so this gave Lindsay a chance to catch up on some well needed shut-eye. She woke up to Ron elbowing her in the ribs once Harry was done with the chasers.

"You beaters, maybe just practice hitting it at each other, (same thing as tryouts, except for practice, not competition) You can use the air space above the goalposts on the opposite side of the field to where Ron and the chasers are."

"okay" Lindsay replied still half asleep as she grabbed her broom and went to the other side of the pitch.

"Hey Harry?" Ron said grabbing onto the back of his shirt.

"Yeah? What is it?"

"um… I wanna talk to you."

"about what?"

"Umm… more like I wanna brag!, herms and I went to well, 3rd last night!"

Harry was shocked by this. Ron should know by now that he did NOT want to hear about the sexual endeavours of his close friends "I'm happy for you Ron, but seeing as this is you and 'Mione I'm forced to do this" he covers his ears and danced around stupidly "LALALALA! I'M NOT HEARING THIS LALALA! MY POOR VIRGIN EARS! LALALALAALALALALAAAAAAA! I understand that you wanna be able to share these things with me, but for the time being, I'm still getting nothing, and it bothers me to think that my best friends are… with each other. So you can gush to me all you want about the emotional crap, but please don't go into intimate details until I have something to brag about! Okay?"

"understood, so now all we have to work on is getting you a girl! Because the silence is KILLING ME!" Ron laughed as he mounted his broom and zoomed off.

"and all I have to work on is getting over Sirius's death." Harry said to himself bitterly "Damn it! Now I'm talking to myself, that's the first sign of insanity. Oh well, should've expected it!" he said to himself before zooming off into the fresh morning air.

At Lunch, Hermione was being praticuliary quiet Lindsay asked her what was up, but Hermione said nothing, so nothing was said. Ron and Harry were still off flying, It is almost impossible to separate them from their brooms, even if there was food involved, so since Hermie was in such an odd mood, Lindsay decided to strike up a conversation with Dean.
"Hey" "Hey, Lindsay is it? I'm sorry, I've never really had a chance to get to know you and you've been here 2 months already."

"No big, you're the 2nd person to "formally introduce" themselves to me in 24 hours."

"Really? Okay, so now I feel like less of a jerk!" he said smiling

"well you don't seem like one"

"thanks"

"I'm not really surprised that you havn't seen me around, Harry has the Quidditch team practicing for 4 hours 5 times a week! So I'm kinda busy. He just really wants to be sure we win this match, I figure if we do, we should have a good chance at getting to the final match, I've heard that Hufflepuff are fairly eas to beat, when you take out their chasers, my job, and that Ravenclaw is second hardest to beat next to Slytherin, but from what I've seen of their beaters, all they know how to do is hit the ball, not aim it or anything, they don't seem to have a brain cell between them."

"Ah so I see you've met Crabbe and Goyle."

"Nah, more like observed from a distance."

"I see" Dean said cocking an eyebrow puzzled.

"Can I tell you a secret?"

"sure"

"Because I'm smallest on the team, Harry has me go on "stealth missions" as he calls them and watch other teams practice."

"really?"

"yep, he had been doing that for wood secretly for his first three years, then helped ron last year, and ron sand him spied on them, and now he has me doing it, I rotate with him and ron, but thing is, because of ron's red hair he's been caught a couple of times, I've still yet to be seen and same with Harry, but this is one of the reasons why we know ohw the team's gonna fly. Two nights ago, Harry and I were out there watching the Ravenclaws and a budger came flying at us, I had to do a quick dissillusionment charm on him and I so we could run and not be seen clearly from the air, we got into the school before the thing got us, then it flew safely back to the pitch, but so far that's the closest either of up have been to being caught."

"Cool"

Their conversation carried on for a total of 3 hours eventually they moved it up to the common room but then Lindsay had to go finish her weekend homework because she would not have time the next day due to the Quidditch match.