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Early the next morning, orders came from Dumbledore down to the Gryffindor tower that the Gryffindor team was to change into their Quidditch robes and wait in their common room until further orders. Undoubtedly, Dumbledore wanted to make a good impression on the Durmstrang students. The two teams were surely going to be introduced to one another today!
'Yesterday wasn't so bad after all, huh?' said Lily as she came down to the common room, after she'd been there to get a catcher for her ponytail. 'So, you think you'll be able to beat them then?' she asked James, who was sitting on one of the couches and was looking at some statistics charts Daniel made. He didn't reply. 'Wanna come for a Hogsmeade trip? Me and Jennifer already decided we'll be going… today, hopefully!' she said.
'Oh! No, I'm sorry! I won't be able to; you know the big match is coming up! I can't go around traipsing all over Hogsmeade when I should be practicing for Quidditch. This is going to be the school's victory, not just Gryffindors!' James replied. His tone didn't seem at all grieved or at least sorry for the fact that he had to turn down Lily's offer. This seemed to piss Lily off…
Just then, an official letter on the bulletin board caught Lily's eye. She went over and read the note from Dumbledore.
'Hmph!' Lily said as she read the note. 'So you can't come down to breakfast with me either!' she said to James, handing him the note.
'Daniel told me about that one!' said James, looking carelessly at the note Lily had handed him. He tossed it aside and looked up to see Lily fuming. He then realized he certainly had done a dumb move.
'Look, Lily! It's just… it's not really my fault, see? I don't want to change into my stupid Quidditch uniform early in the morning! And do you really think I'd wait here for 'further orders' instead of coming down to breakfast with you?' James apologized.
'I think you ought to wake your mates up now! Otherwise, you're going to be late for showing off your skills!' Lily retorted as she flung her hair over her shoulder and stomped out of the Gryffindor tower followed by some other girls.
James sighed heavily and hung his head. He always messed up! He didn't know where he had gone wrong and was completely bewildered why Lily had acted so rudely. He shrugged and set aside those thoughts as he went up to his own dormitory, deciding to wake up Sirius, as Lily had rightly suggested.
'Oy, Padfoot!' James called out as he reached Sirius's four-poster and flung the curtains aside. 'Wake up… now!' he cried loudly as he yawned and went over to the window, pulling aside the curtains. Bright sunlight poured in through the curtains and flooded the fifth year dorm. Sirius grumbled something angrily in his sleep, briefly shielded his eyes against the gilt rays of the brilliant sun, buried his head underneath his fluffy pillow and went to sleep again.
James came forwards and snatched Sirius's quilt from him… to no avail. He then forced the pillow out of Sirius's reach until Sirius got fed up and sat up, disgruntled.
'Wassamatter?' he grumbled angrily at James, rubbing his eyes at the same time.
'You need to get up now! Enough of your beauty sleep. Orders from Dumbledore, we need to be ready in an hour or half or so… in our Quidditch robes. We're probably going to be introduced to the Durmstrang blokes' James informed Sirius as he threw down Sirius's quilt and pillow. 'Now please get up! I have more important stuff to do than standing around here trying to wake up Mr. Sleepy head here!' he said as he exited the door, leaving behind an angry and irritated Sirius Black.
Sirius's hair were a mess and his pajamas were in a right state. Shoddy and sloppy, Sirius dejectedly got up from his bed and headed towards the washrooms. This was a state of the famous Sirius Black, only few had seen. It certainly was a condition of Sirius that he surely didn't want the girls to see!
'Alright, everyone! Ready?' Daniel asked his teammates as they came one by one into the common room.
'All of us want to make a good impression on the Durmstrang team, right?' he said aggressively.
'Right' everyone droned back.
'Dumbledore will send message and inform us when we should go downstairs. McGonagall is probably going to come up and check whether everything's right. I think we're going to go down in the ground and take part in the traditional ceremony of –'
'Ceremony?' Sirius blurted out. 'What ceremony? I don't know about any ceremony, no one told me! How does it go about? What do we hav –'
'Sirius! Calm down. It's a traditional ceremony that takes place whenever two of the best schools are competing. And… it didn't take place all these previous years that matches were held because although Hogwarts is one of the best Wizarding institute, the ones we were competing against never were! Durmstrang and Hogwarts are both amazingly and equally great schools' Daniel informed his teammates. This earned a lot of 'Oooohs' and 'Aaaahs'
'So… what do we have to do in the ceremony?' asked James curiously. He was still bummed out about Lily being angry with him and wished he could set her mood right again. He just didn't feel good when she was pissed off at him.
'You don't have to do anything!' said Daniel. 'The ceremony includes the performance from the cheerleaders of both teams. I must assure you, our cheerleaders are better than all others! So… after that, we sing our school song. And… obviously, the Durmstrang lot will sing theirs. We'll remain seated in our seats which will be specially arranged. We then have to get up and have ourselves recognized. As far as I know, as one of us get up, our image is magically magnified and shown to the crowd. Our name appears right beneath it along with the comments of teachers and headmasters about us!' he said happily.
'Really?' said Fulton. 'Cool!'
'Yeah! Amazing! Though I do hope Professor Kinabolt's comment for me isn't displayed!' said Sirius.
'Right, so you won't exactly have to do anything!' said Daniel. 'We'll get Dumbledore's message any minute now!'
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