"Lily you hoo! You there?" Lily was jerked out of her topple "What…? Oh ya I was listening" Emma and Tonks started laughing and Lily went back to her Breakfast. It had been nearly a month ago when they had sat together her as new Gryffindor, but now they had fallen into step with this school life. And Today Emma and Tonks were planning to tryout for the Gryffindor Qudditch team.
"Hey!" Emma said pointing up into the crowd of owls now flying in "Look Hedwig's got a package!" Hedwig's Sender had now become a regular correspondent of theirs though they still had no idea as to who it was. This mysterious person had sent them many tips; from how to make it look like you wrote a ton for a report when you really hadn't, to idea's on how to get back at the Malfoys, which they hadn't been able to do because they conveniently placed themselves by Snape when ever the three of them came around. They had sent this problem with Hedwig and help seemed to be arriving in form of a square package.
" I wonder what it is now!" Tonks said excited. "I can't wait to open it!" Emma said for once showing her greedy side. "I still wonder who it is, they are very generous!" At that the package fell and Tonks caught it. "Let's open it!" Tonks said putting it on the table.
"Wait!" Said Emma throwing up her hand.
"What!" Tonks and Lily said in unison!
"Okay let's be logical," said Emma in an annoyingly calm voice, "now what is this most likely?"
Lily gave her a look then said, "Something to help us get back at Sira and her brother… I always forget his name."
"Right so maybe we should open it away from prying eyes in case we're not supposed to have whatever this is that has been sent to us."
"Okay." Tonks said upset a little. "Okay, but we are sooo opening it after Quidditch tryouts." Tonks said starting to eat again.
"I'll hold it then, since I'm not trying out," said Lily taking the package and standing up "I'll meet you guess down there."
"Ok, come on Emma, lets get ready!" Tonks said heading for the common room to get dressed.
"You know," said Emma heading up stairs with Tonks, "It's going to nearly impossible for one of us to get picked for the team unless, we're you know, like perfect, besides we don't even have good brooms since they have that stupid rule about not letting first years have brooms unless they're on the team." She said as the walked through the portrait hole.
"I know! But I bet we can borrow one!" Tonks said; nothing right now could dampen her spirits. "So, come on, I want to practice a little before tryouts!" Tonks said running up to the girl's dormitory.
Lily was sitting down at the Qudditch pitch which was completely empty except for a guy down on the field with the ball, who lily guessed, was the Gryffindor captain. She went back to her potions homework, Surprisingly potions wasn't the complete disaster it should of been, Lily and them had actually done pretty well in it, because Emma seemed to have an unusual knack for it and by just copying whatever she did, and reading ahead to be completely prepared for the next lesson Lily and Tonks were near the top of the class, and between them they had only gotten detention 4 times counting Tonks first one, Emma had said proudly that that was an a accomplishment for any Weasley.
They were doing well in all the subjects really, they got by in History of Magic, taught by this really dull ghost, by taking turns paying attention and then copying the notes. Emma was really good at pretty much every subject and Lily found that she was a little too enthusiastic and tended to make things explode, (which Tonks and Emma found really funny) Though Professor Granger had informed her that that was a sign of power she just needed to control it, Tonks though, never seemed to master any of the given spells, she was more prone to staring out the window most of class and then at the very end using a completely different spell to achieve the same task, the teachers seemed both annoyed and impressed by this.
Just then Emma, Tonks and a bunch of other kids came down to the field. Ever since flying lessons Tonks had talked of nothing else but trying out for the Qudditch team, she had finally convinced Emma to try out to though, she seemed to enjoy pointing out all the negatives. Lily had enjoyed flying lessons and according to Emma and Tonks she was rather good but she had no idea about trying out, after all chaser was one of the must popular positions and she was sure she wasn't gonna make it. She decided to try out next year when she was better.
"Okay every one who is trying out, get in a line!" The captain yelled at the crowd.
"Okay" said the captain after everyone one had flown around the pitch and about ten of the original crowd had gone, all of them first years. "We'll start with beaters first the rest of you just sit down." Lily started on her DADA work, it would be awhile for them to go since neither one had any desire to be a beater, she had taking a liking to Defense class, it was really interesting and she loved learning about Harry Potter, she now found herself daydreaming that he actually was her father as Tonks had insinuated once before. her daydreams usually were along the lines of her getting a pleading note from him to come home for Christmas, her going and him explaining to her that his state was due to the fact that he was undercover tracking death eaters, about how he hated doing it, and how he wanted to tell her, then they would go over to the Weasley's for a party, where everyone was so happy to see her and Harry, and it ended with him giving her a gold locket and telling her stories of her mother.
It was a rather sappy daydream and Lily knew that it was never going to happen but she liked thinking about it all the same. Just then something black whizzed past her head and a bat hit the bleachers in front of her. Apparently one of the beaters had missed, lost his bat, and accidentally hit the other bludger straight at her. He and his crones were cracking up, Lily threw the bat at him and knocked him off his broom.
Tonks and Emma laughed as the captain walked up to her. "Can you fly…on a broom?" The captain asked.
"No" said Lily still irritated about the bludger "I fly in a car. Don't you?"
"Ok then… never mind." The captain said and walked back to the team. "Ok, we need everyone trying out for chaser over here, keeper's right there and seekers in front of me. Ok!" The captain said looking around and saw that there were only five people trying out for seeker, Tonks being one of them.
"Okay," he said to the seekers "here's how this is going to work, I'm going to let the snitch go, who ever catches it gets to be seeker, pure and simple."
Tonks took a deep breath and mounted her broom.
"Ok, this isn't hard at all." Tonks said to herself, but the few seconds it took for him to say go seemed like hours.
"Go!" The captain said letting off the snitch, and it quickly swirled up into the sun. Tonks raced up toward the sky after the snitch.
Lily walked down toward Emma, and the crowd down below which were yelling for their favorite seeker.
"Did she borrow a broom from some one else, 'cause otherwise I don't think she'll have a chance." she asked Emma when she was near enough, and looked up at the sky where they were circling around looking for a sign of gold.
"Yeah! She borrowed my cousins!" Emma said watching Tonks zoom around chasing the snitch. "GO TONKS!" Emma yelled randomly as Lily watched amusingly.
"There it is." Lily said pointing to the sky, where there was what looked to be a low dim star. "See that fourth year bloke, has spotted it, I think Tonks did too but she's not as close as him!
Before Lily knew it Tonks was right next to the fourth year zooming after the snitch as well.
"Move out of my way!" The fourth year yelled and Tonks gave him an evil glance. "Ok!" She said and rammed into him, he hit one of the podiums and started after the snitch again.
Emma was laughing now "She's 'gonna get it!" she said with confidence.
"The others are on the way there now, maybe she should just give up on the snitch and ram everyone so she's the only one left and then she'll win by default." Emma laughed some more at that.
Tonks started ahead of everyone else and was about a foot away from the snitch, she reached out her hand when something hit her from behind pushed her forward and off the broom. She started to fall and landed on the ground with a large thud, with that her arm relaxed and the snitch flew out.
"That's a foul." said the captain calmly coming over to Tonk's side and helping her up.
"WHAT?" said the forth year who had apparently been the one to push her. "The objection was to get the snitch," he went over and picked it up, "I got it I won." he said with a smug smile.
"Yes, but if you'd have tried that in a game you would have been disqualified." said the captain. "You lost, now leave!"
Tonks stood up and rubbed her head. "That hurt!" Tonks said walking over to Emma, and Lily. "So, I made it?" Tonks asked confused, her head hurt too much to put two and two together.
"Yes," said the Captain "We'll have a little meeting after the rest of the tryouts." A little while later, Emma and Lily were walking back up to the common room, Lily carrying her school books, and Emma carrying the package from that morning. Emma hadn't made keeper, she had been out flown by a 7th year who had apparently been on the team for the last five years "But" as Emma pointed out as they walked through the portrait hole, "He'll be gone next year and then I'll get it for sure."
Tonks came up to the common room a little later and walked in.
"Hey!" Lily and Emma said as she walked in. "You will make it next year Emma! But for now, I don't have a broom." Tonks said sitting down in a chair by the fire. "Let's open the package!" Tonks said excitedly.
"Okay" said Lily and took off the packaging and then opened the box. Inside was a beautiful cloak and a lump of old parchment. "What is this stuff?" Lily asked picking up the parchment and seeing a card on the cloak, picked it up and handed it to Emma to read aloud.
"'Dear New Generation,' " Emma saidjust as they had taken to calling him the "sender"'he had taken to calling them the "new generation." They could never figure out why, but Emma was sure when they found out who it was, they would understand why, " 'I have sent you some items that will help you in your plan for mischief , the first is an invisibility cloak, I assume you know what it does otherwise your very dense, The second is called the Marauder's Map, it is a er... special map of Hogwarts, to achieve it tap it and say ' I solemnly swear I'm up to no good' when your done just tap it again and say 'mischief manage.'
Bye for now rite me and tell me how it worked!
Sincerely yours,
The sender'"