Double Double Toil and Trouble
By Zeta - otherwise known as Amanda Halliwell
Chapter - I lost track of the Chapter number -
It was Sunday afternoon and the first Qudditch game of the season was fast approaching. It was nearly Halloween, and the match was to be played the day before. The first game of the season would be between Gryffindor and Slytherin, and James was nearly always off practicing with the rest of the Gryffindors. Sirius found this quite annoying, as he had to spend whole days in Parisa's company, because Remus and Peter would always walk off when the girl approached. Remus seemed to dislike Parisa for some unknown reason. He had no idea why, because Parisa was always friendly towards Sirius' friends.
At this particular point in time, Sirius was sat out by the lake with Remus who was busily reading a book. He had no clue where Peter was, but then Peter was often off elsewhere these days. Sirius was actually quite bored, he could do with Parisa showing up, and at least she was a lot of fun. He found her jokes amusing and the fact that she was so at ease with herself and others, so friendly towards him. It wasn't long before Parisa showed up and sat next to Sirius. Remus immediately closed his book, got up and left the two alone.
"Remus doesn't like me at all you know," Parisa told Sirius ruefully, "I wish I knew why."
"I don't know, he could be jealous because I have a girlfriend and he doesn't," Sirius said calmly, "although I'm sure he likes you a lot. You're very likeable."
Parisa giggled and leant on Sirius's shoulder, "Yeah well he doesn't know what a great friend he has."
Sirius grinned widely. Parisa gently kissed him on the cheek and then they moved on to kissing on the lips, tongue and all. Sirius looked over Parisa's shoulders and saw Prue go dashing back into the castle, running away from her friend Kyra. She probably wanted to go and find her boyfriend Snivellus. Sirius and Parisa soon drew apart and Parisa blushed then looked off towards the lake.
"You're wonderful, you know that," Sirius asked the girl, trying hard not to think about Prue.
Parisa giggled happily, "Ahh… well, I knew. I always knew. I also knew you, Sirius, are the most handsome boyfriend a girl could ever have."
Sirius leaned in and kissed her again. He knew he shouldn't feel guilty that he was kissing Parisa instead of Prue, but really, Prue had kissed his worst enemy. She knew this and yet she showed absolutely no guilt towards what she had done. She was asking for this to happen really. Besides, Prue was probably really happy with her new boyfriend. Not that Sirius had actually seen them together since, but he knew they were going out, because Serenity had said that she had seen them kissing only the other day. Once again they pulled apart from one another.
"Sirius really," Parisa giggled, "I've got homework that needs done. I can't possibly afford another detention…"
"Oh don't go," Sirius complained holding onto her arm playfully.
"No seriously Sirius!" Parisa said her tone suddenly changing, "I don't want another detention."
"Okay okay, I give up!" Sirius said laughing.
Sirius watched Parisa make her way back up into the castle and sighed. So he really would have to get some of his homework done after all. It's not like he had any distractions now and Remus had walked off in a huff for some reason. Sirius looked around for his friend and couldn't see him any where within eye shot. Deciding that he couldn't be bothered to go and look for Remus, Sirius began writing his Potions essay. Get that out of the way first.
It was a week later and it was time for the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin Qudditch Match. Never had such competitiveness been at its peak. Several Gryffindors had ended up in the hospital wing due to serious injuries bought on by the Slytherin players. Most inflicted by Prue herself, who had taken cruel amusement in jinxing nearly all the Gryffindors she could before the match. James had somehow managed to escape injury, but only just as he had dodged most of the curses and jinxes aimed at him. They'd always ended up hitting someone else, and one of them had happened to be Lily. James had helped Lily to the hospital wing with Serenity, and James had felt that it was his fault that Lily had been caught in the crossfire. If only he hadn't moved out of the way, but Sirius was constantly reminding James that if he had moved out of the way Gryffindor wouldn't have a Seeker.
It was the week leading up to the match and it seemed the two houses were at war. No teacher could blink without a curse or jinx being fired somewhere, and Gryffindor and Slytherin classes had had to be separated and taught out of wand reach of the other. It was really difficult, especially for classes such as Charms which was more practical than theory, or Defence Against the Dark Arts which gave the students an excuse to shoot curses off at each other. DADA had ended up being the most violent of classes and had had to be reduced to doing theory work leading up to the match between the houses. So much for practical DA.
It was now time for the match and James was getting ready in the Gryffindor Locker rooms. Sirius was up in the commentating stand ready to begin. He saw all the teams fly out ready to face one another and Madam Hooch fly out onto the field.
"And Madam Hooch has released the Quaffle!" Sirius shouted through the megaphone loving this bit of the game, well if he couldn't play he might as well commentate, "and it's Avery with the Quaffle! Passes to Nott, oooh intercepted by the Gryffindor Chaser Autumn, attractive girl that she is. She's flying up the field, dodges an attempt to tackle by Avery."
Sirius was quite aware of Professor McGonagall sitting beside him and refused the temptation to say something about how gorgeous Autumn was and what a great kisser she was too.
"Autumn attempts to shoot - FOWL!" Sirius roared.
Indeed it was. Prue had just sent a Bludger flying towards Autumn. It had knocked Autumn off her broomstick as she fell several feet to the ground. Prue felt no remorse whatsoever, and had loved the chance of knocking the stupid girl off her broomstick.
"Penalty to Gryffindor. Gryffindor lead, ten to nil," Sirius said doing a score count, "And its Avery with the Quaffle! Passes to Black! Black passes - intercepted by Pontiac, passed to Frank Longbottom! Ah he shoots! Scores! Twenty to nil."
The game was getting rather rough now. Prue had already knocked out one of the Gryffindor Chasers and was already thinking about wiping out the other two. One of the Gryffindor Beaters had knocked Bellatrix off her broom and sent her crashing to the ground. So both teams were both down to two Chasers each, Bellatrix having gone off injured because of a broken arm and Autumn because she had been knocked unconscious by the Bludger.
"And it's Nott with the Quaffle, passes to Avery, who passes it back and flies up the field. Nott shoots - saved by David Wood! Wood throws the Quaffle to Pontiac! Pontiac to Longbottom! Saved by the Slytherin Keeper Montague! Montague passes to Nott, Nott to Avery, Avery back to Nott, Nott shoots, scores!"
The Slytherin's all did a lap of the Qudditch Pitch laughing and jeering, Prue included with this. Prue seized her chance to knock out another Gryffindor Chaser by thwacking the Bludger at Pontiac; aside from the fact that Pontiac was her cousin Prue had no real grudge against her. Pontiac was just an easy target. It turned out not to be that way, as Prue missed and got one of the Gryffindor Beaters who just thwacked it back across the Pitch.
"And it looks like they've seen the snitch!" Sirius called, "Potter dives after the snitch and the Slytherin Seeker Robinson!"
They were diving and James had indeed seen the snitch. He followed it around the pitch, past all the Chasers and up above the Teacher's stand. James saw a Bludger heading towards him out of the corner of his eye, no doubt sent by Prue. James dodged it and it hit Robinson who immediately fell off his broomstick and onto the ground. James reached out and after a long chase, caught the snitch, winning the match.
"And Gryffindor win!" Sirius yelled gleefully, "Gryffindor win one hundred and seventy to nil!"
The Pitch exploded, jeers from the Slytherin but joyous shouting and calling out from the Gryffindors. Sirius ran down to meet James and congratulate him for winning the match. He pushed his way through the rest of the team and shook his hand then remembered Parisa up in the hospital wing. He was going to have to see to Parisa, but she wouldn't know he wasn't there; after all, she was unconscious.
"Well done mate!" Sirius said laughing happily, "We won!"
"Yeah! We won!" James agreed holding the snitch grinning widely, "oh this is so fun. I can't wait to see the look on Dumbledore's face."
There wasn't long to wait either, Prue looked disgusted with what had happened. Even after her efforts of knocking Parisa off of her broomstick it still didn't seem to affect the Marauder's view of her. She couldn't believe Slytherin had lost, and once more, lost to those annoying Gryffindors.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I'll end it here, right before Halloween which by the by, is the next chapter. Oh you're going to get a surprise, and I want to thank my reviewers, I so loved to feel loved, and I want to thank my friend Flaire for helping with the romance bits of the story. I normally do apocalypses, you can go see for yourself. I hope the match was easy to understand, but just have fun!