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Chapter 23

The next big Quidditch match was looming ahead. Gryffindor versus Hufflepuff. Everyone was excited. Elaine Tang had been organising a huge post-match party for the Gryffindors in the Common Room. She and her friends had organised music, drink and food for the whole house. They were very optimistic about Gryffindor winning.

Hufflepuff prefects had been doing the same. All of their party equipment was set up but they had decided to have pre-match party, just in case.

Because of the fact that Hogwarts no longer had a Quidditch pitch or stadium they were going to use the Quidditch pitch just outside of Hogsmeade. The whole school, well, everyone who wanted to go, was travelling there by coach. The crazy, 'horse-less' carriages that were used to get people to and from Hogsmeade station.

Lily didn't want to go. She really didn't want to go. And when her mind was set about something, it stayed. She was too stubborn to change it. Gemini kept pleading with Lily to go but when she'd said she wouldn't about a million times Gemini gave up and went to find Katie.

"Um, Katie, can I talk to you for a moment?" she asked, pulling Katie away from a riveting game of 'soak the Slytherins' which involved Katie, James and Sirius and a large bag of water bombs.

"Yeah, sure, what is it Gemini?" she asked, laughing as Sirius got Lucius again. How Lucius didn't realise where the bombs were coming from she'd never know.

"Well, you know the Quidditch match tomorrow, can I sit with you?" Gemini asked, feeling slightly embarrassed for some reason.

"What about Evans?" asked Katie, stunned.

"She doesn't want to go, says that Quidditch is a stupid game!" Gemini laughed.

"Well of course you can sit with me!" Katie said with a huge grin. Gemini was relieved and joined in the game of soak the Slytherins, which was actually quite fun!

The following day Katie and Gemini got up and went down to breakfast together. They sat with James, Sirius and Remus. They laughed, joked and talked about the upcoming match.

Lily woke up and was amazed that Gemini, her best friend, had left without her. She wondered where she and, she looked around the room, only one other bed was empty, Katie had gone. She got dressed and went down to breakfast.

She saw Gemini sat with the others and was disgusted. She looked around for people that she knew and saw that the only other person was Peter.

"Hi Peter, can I sit here?" she asked. He looked around, there was only him there.

"Are…are you talking to me?" he stuttered. She nodded and took that as a 'yes Lily of course you can sit with me!' She sat down next to him and began eating.

James glanced across the table and saw them. He spat out the toast he was eating in shock.

"Nice table manners James!" said Sirius sarcastically. "What are you looking at that made you go 'EGH' anyways?" Sirius put his head next to James' and looked in the same direction. "EGH!" Sirius said.

Katie, Gemini and Remus looked in turn and were also horrified.

"What is she doing?" asked Gemini, almost to herself rather than anyone else.

"She's fraternising with the enemy!" said James angrily.

"Stupid mudblood!" said Sirius.

"SIRIUS!" said the rest of them. Lily was bad, but she wasn't that bad. Sirius simply shrugged and went on looking evilly in their direction.

When the time came to get on the carriages Elaine took their names and coach number. Sirius, James, Remus, Gemini, Katie and Andrew Wood were together in coach number seventeen. They talked all the way to the Hogsmeade stadium, which was about twenty miles away.

When they got there they were shocked to see the number of Ministry workers guarding it. They were obviously making sure that what happened at Hogwarts didn't happen here. They were only letting students and teachers in, in the hope that no one else could get in and sabotage the pitch. It hadn't really crossed anyone's minds however that the person who wrecked the Hogwarts pitch might already be inside the school, but nevertheless they were prepared for the worst.

"As you know we've had to use this stadium temporarily but I'm sure the play will be just as good." Commentated Rachel Flansborough from her temporary commentator's box.

"Come on Gem! Stop moping about and come and sit down!" said Sirius to his sister. She looked awkward and uneasy like she didn't want to be there.

"What's wrong?" asked James.

"It's just, I feel really bad, about Lily, like I should have stayed or something," she said, finally sitting down.

"Evans is no good Gem," said Sirius.

"She's not though Siri, she's really nice, once you get to know her of course," Gemini said, standing up for her absent friend.

"Whatever, I don't like her, none of us here do, you know what she did to Katie. She's evil!" said Sirius, settling down in his seat. Something wasn't right. He couldn't sit still. He stood up and there was a loud ripping noise. He looked at the seat, there was a nail sticking up slightly from the wooden bench, it hadn't been hammered in right.

"Siri, I would sit back down if I were you," said James, "We'll figure a way to sort out the rip in your trousers later!" Sirius went red and sat back down straight away.

"And the players line up on the pitch. Christina Epsom is favourite to catch the snitch on this fine day! Madame Spinner-Webb releases the balls and they're off! It's Michael Knightly with the Quaffle for Gryffindor!"

The players soared high above the pitch. Most of them felt uneasy and kept looking around for any signs of danger. Many of the players weren't on the pitch today as their parents wouldn't let them.

Christina Epsom felt uneasy. Her parents said that nothing like that would never happen again. She wasn't so sure though and although she was favourite to catch the snitch she really didn't want to play.

"Tommy Snugger has the Quaffle for Hufflepuff and he's scored. That's 50-10 to Hufflepuff."

Michael Knightly looked around, he felt uneasy too. The Gryffindors were getting excited but not as much as they normally did. He didn't really have the heart to play Quidditch today. He looked onto the match and the inevitability dawned on him. Gryffindor weren't going to win the match.

Christina peered into the game from the cloud mist above. The snitch would be impossible to find in this sort of weather. The only way she could possibly catch it would be if the sun glinted off it and she just caught sight of the reflection.

"Hufflepuff are in the lead. 70-10, there really is no stopping them."

"Why did you call Lily a mudblood at breakfast?" Gemini asked her brother.

"Did I? Oh, well I expect she deserved it" he replied, not caring less.

"Siri, that's awful! She wasn't doing anything! She was just sitting there!" Gemini protested.

"Ok, well I still don't like her!"

"Sirius! She's my friend, can't you just try and like her?"

"Not when she's mean to my friends! I don't want anyone being horrible about Katie! It's well tight!"

"Fine! Would you consider being nice to her if she apologised to Katie?"

"Maybe." And that was that.

Michael caught and lost the Quaffle as Christina saw a gold glimmer in the sky. She raced towards it but Frances-Kate Tomson blocked her way. She span over the top of her broom and landed on a heap on the ground. Victor Jasons saw the snitch and raced towards it, clasping both hands around it.

Hufflepuff went wild. And that was that. Hufflepuff won the semi-finals of the Hogwart's Quidditch League.

The Gryffindors were disappointed. They had been the favourites to win after all. James and Sirius didn't say anything; they remained silent and didn't move.

"Um, Sirius, James, we have to go now, everyone is leaving now," Remus said, he was also depressed.

"Oh yeah," James said half-heartedly.

"Ok, I'm going," said Sirius.

"Sirius, what about your trousers?" James asked.

"Oh yeah, my trousers," said Sirius, with no expression in his voice whatsoever.

"Maybe no one will notice if we all walk behind you," said Remus.

"Yeah, maybe not," said Sirius.

"We have to go now, or we'll be left behind," said Gemini, looking at the almost empty stalls. They all nodded and got up, Sirius went ahead and the others went behind him. If they'd been in the right mood they would have laughed hysterically at the sight in front of them, but they didn't.

They found Lily in the Gryffindor Common Room playing chess with Peter. All of them ignored her except Gemini who stayed behind and looked like she was going to say something, but she didn't. She just looked hurt and left.

Gemini, James and Sirius all had very similar dreams that night. About Quidditch and how they were all destined to be stars. They were famous, they were part of the England squad and everyone loved them. Gemini and James were Chasers and were amazing at what they did. Sirius was a Beater, vicious and quick.

All three woke up feeling happy and knew that they were destined to be stars. They all decided to train hard and join the team as soon as possible. They would be on the Gryffindor team and they would win the cup!

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