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the queen of literature J.K.Rowling. I am making no profit from this story.
AN: I've had this chapter done for a while now I just didn't have time to post it. I'm drowning in end of the year tests and assignments half of them pointless because they won't be marked in time for report cards anyway. I'm really stuck on chapter 9 right now so the next chapter may take a while. I got five whole reviews guess that's a bit of an improvement. Review loads and maybe I'll be inspired.
-Shortstuff
HOBOrules: Thanks I like how it's turning out too.
Christina: Thanks and sorry it's hard for you to read but believe me when I say I'm doing my best. Grammar and Punctuation were always my worst points and I guess that makes me a horrible writer but I just like this story and where it's going.
Silver Warrior: Well I needed someone for Ginny to go out with for my plot idea to work and I didn't like the idea of Dean, which JK suggested, so I went with Colin.
Arwentheelf: thanks this is how I figured she'd react, or that's how I saw it on the little movie projector (one or those old ones) in my head.
NoName: Sorry you didn't like how I portrayed Ginny but that's how I figured she'd react. In my mind she reacted that way because before then Harry had shown nothing of his feelings for her and she had always thought about him as a different type of person. Her and Hermione talk a lot and so she knows how he was with Cho and didn't think that he was the type of guy to do that. Besides she's kind of nervous about Quiditch and she was confused by Harry's mysterious behavior. Hope that explains her reaction and I hope you don't hate the way I've portrayed her in the following chapters.
Chapter 6:
As Harry hurried through the corridors leading to the Quiditch pitch the full force of what he had just done hit him. It wasn't actually his complete fault he didn't have complete control over his mind, it just happened. He had a headache already from all these confusing thoughts buzzing around in his head and somehow he had the feeling that the day would only get worse.
The sun shone full in his face as he opened the double doors to the Quiditch pitch. Gazing around he saw a few nervous looking second years and a couple of other larger kids he didn't know, but he remembered how long the sign-up list had been and shook his head slowly. Mounting his broom he kicked of hard and lazily lapped the stadium a couple times before heading down to the first row of stands to wait for the rest of the people to show up. The thoughts he had left behind during his quick warm up laps came back to him. It didn't look as though he had any chance with Ginny now; she had a boyfriend. "I wish I knew that before I kissed her," he voiced his thoughts. It wasn't all for nothing though, it did confirm that he liked her although her knew that already he just wasn't ready to accept it. The morning events had shoved evidence in his face he couldn't ignore. He had liked it and he had felt warmed all over and he knew he would have been disgusted if he didn't like her.
It was all too much to think about and so he prepared himself slowly gathering himself so that nothing would seem on when he saw her. No one else needed to know what had happened between them. Amazingly he kept his cool as she walked out onto the Quiditch pitch her hair flopping back and forth in a pony tail. Guiltily he saw that she was avoiding him and why wouldn't she, besides what had he expected, at least it wasn't worse. Yet he felt horrible, at least before they used to talk and now he had gone and ruined the friendship they had. He was being selfish and he had to pay for that. But what did people expect from him that he just go around liking her and pretend it was nothing. Well he couldn't do that anyway it was to late now the best he could hope for is that she would forget about it and they would become friends again.
Snapping out of his thought as he heard his name he swiveled around on the spot and came face to face with Ron. "Hey haven't you heard me calling your name almost a million times?" Ron asked.
"Sorry, no I've been thinking."
"Bout what?' Ron questioned
"Oh, well there are like seventy people trying out for four spots on the team and I don't know how I'm going to choose or even remember all their names," Harry lied. He didn't really expect Ron to buy it but he didn't think that he would press the matter after all they had only become friends again last night.
When Ron spoke he did sound a little unconvinced, "Ya I guess that would have anyone thinking, I'm glad I don't have to do it."
"Consider yourself lucky, still I need your help. Come on lets go and gather them up it looks like most of them are here." Harry turned and strode in the direction of the center of the field and Ron followed looking around at the eager and nervous Griffindors most of, which were very young not much more than second, or third years.
As they made it to the center of the field Katie Bell came over. "Lucky if we get through all of these guys today," she remarked.
"Tell me about it," Harry said. "Okay you lot come on in, first of all anyone who wants to try out for one of the two chaser positions stay the rest of you come back after 12:00 noon." Some 30 kids broke away and left and Harry continued on, "Now we'll go from oldest years to the youngest, anyone from the seventh year come forward and sign your name on the clipboard." Five people broke away from the crowd, two guys and three girls and signed their names on the list then retreated to the front of the crowd.
In a couple minutes everyone there had their name on the list, "Now when I call your name come forward and show us what you've got." Harry called forward two of the seventh years. "Okay, Katie I want you to get in there and see how they work with you." Harry grabbed the quaffle from the trunk at his feet and tossed it to Katie, "Ron get up there and do your job while I watch."
Mounting their brooms the five of them kicked of together, Harry with his clipboard and pen in hand. Ron headed of toward the hoops as Katie briefly huddled to discuss a simple plan. Overall the blond girl wasn't completely bad, but the brunette was embarrassing she dropped the quaffle every time she had it in her hand and she wasn't a very good flier either. He decided that he would leave the name and cross it out the minute anyone better came along. He didn't have to wait that long the next two kids were both better than the first pair of girls although he wasn't awed.
The tryouts were agonizingly long and some of the people who tried out were so horrible he didn't even watch after the first couple of seconds before crossing their names out. "Colin Creevey and Ginny Weasley," He said in a normal voice. Looking up he saw Ginny and Colin going over to talk to Katie. He watched keenly and had to admit that Ginny was really good but also noticed how she was a natural on the broom. She dived abruptly following the quaffle flawlessly. Her passes were confident and on target. She managed to get it passed Ron almost every single time making him fumble out of frustration. However the same could not be said for Colin. He was decent but not as good as Ginny. She was a beauty to watch, but it wasn't only her Quiditch skills he was watching. He found his mind going over how slim and agile her body was. He repeatedly thought off her quick reflexes and stunning beauty was so amazing he felt he could watch them all day.
Then he realized that it was beyond what he needed to see to make a decision about whether they were on the team or not, "Okay that's enough from you guys," he called out suddenly and saw Ginny drop the quaffle in surprise. She quickly dived down to retrieve it, tossing it to Katie she dove down again landing gracefully and making her way to the double doors chatting avidly with Colin who had his arm around her. He felt a boiling wave of anger and jealousy toward Colin and quickly turned around to call on the next pair to tryout. The rest of the tryouts took forever.
In the end he had a couple minutes left before the kids trying out for Beaters would come in so he flew over to discuss the people who would become the new chasers with Ron and Katie.
"Well I think Ginny is defiantly a good chaser," Katie said immediately, Ron nodded his head in agreement.
"Okay," Harry said glad that the others had thought she was good to, he put a star beside her name. "Who else how about the 6th year boy, I think his name was Andrew."
"He was okay," Katie said, "But I think the 4th year kid was good, I think his name is Josh."
"Ya I found him hard to predict, I think he'd be good," Ron said.
"I was watching him he's really good, Okay then Josh and Ginny," Harry said. Looking down he saw that a bunch of kids had just walked onto the field. Oh great the beaters he mumbled to himself. He landed in front of them and told them exactly what to do. It took them two hours to get though everybody. In the end they picked a 6th year, Matthew and a third year girl, Amanda who was unbelievably strong for her size.
They headed into the familiar change room and changed quickly. They crossed the Quiditch pitch and headed down towards the great hall. Katie left them in near the marble staircase. In the entrance hall they were joined by and absurdly dressed Luna and to Harry's uncomfort Ginny. Ginny didn't look at him but she didn't completely ignore everything he said, in fact she acted as if everything were normal except for the fact that she was avoiding his gaze. He felt guilty and supposed he should apologize but somehow he thought that it would be harder done then said so he decided to leave the matter for now and think about it when his mind wasn't so tired.
In the great hall Luna left them for the Ravenclaw table and Ginny Ron and Harry sat down to begin an early dinner.
"You made the team," Harry said suddenly, he felt he should make up for making her feeling uncomfortable earlier.
"Oh really, sure it wasn't out of favoritism or pity or some other reason," she said catching Harry's eye and staring meaningfully.
"No, the whole team decided you were really good," Ron said while attempting to grab a leg of chicken from the near by plate.
"Great I should go tell my friends,"
"But you've barely eaten," protested Harry just having her around warmed him up a bit.
"I'm not hungry," With that she got up and left. - End of chapter 6 - TBC
AN: I've had this chapter done for a while now I just didn't have time to post it. I'm drowning in end of the year tests and assignments half of them pointless because they won't be marked in time for report cards anyway. I'm really stuck on chapter 9 right now so the next chapter may take a while. I got five whole reviews guess that's a bit of an improvement. Review loads and maybe I'll be inspired.
-Shortstuff
HOBOrules: Thanks I like how it's turning out too.
Christina: Thanks and sorry it's hard for you to read but believe me when I say I'm doing my best. Grammar and Punctuation were always my worst points and I guess that makes me a horrible writer but I just like this story and where it's going.
Silver Warrior: Well I needed someone for Ginny to go out with for my plot idea to work and I didn't like the idea of Dean, which JK suggested, so I went with Colin.
Arwentheelf: thanks this is how I figured she'd react, or that's how I saw it on the little movie projector (one or those old ones) in my head.
NoName: Sorry you didn't like how I portrayed Ginny but that's how I figured she'd react. In my mind she reacted that way because before then Harry had shown nothing of his feelings for her and she had always thought about him as a different type of person. Her and Hermione talk a lot and so she knows how he was with Cho and didn't think that he was the type of guy to do that. Besides she's kind of nervous about Quiditch and she was confused by Harry's mysterious behavior. Hope that explains her reaction and I hope you don't hate the way I've portrayed her in the following chapters.
Chapter 6:
As Harry hurried through the corridors leading to the Quiditch pitch the full force of what he had just done hit him. It wasn't actually his complete fault he didn't have complete control over his mind, it just happened. He had a headache already from all these confusing thoughts buzzing around in his head and somehow he had the feeling that the day would only get worse.
The sun shone full in his face as he opened the double doors to the Quiditch pitch. Gazing around he saw a few nervous looking second years and a couple of other larger kids he didn't know, but he remembered how long the sign-up list had been and shook his head slowly. Mounting his broom he kicked of hard and lazily lapped the stadium a couple times before heading down to the first row of stands to wait for the rest of the people to show up. The thoughts he had left behind during his quick warm up laps came back to him. It didn't look as though he had any chance with Ginny now; she had a boyfriend. "I wish I knew that before I kissed her," he voiced his thoughts. It wasn't all for nothing though, it did confirm that he liked her although her knew that already he just wasn't ready to accept it. The morning events had shoved evidence in his face he couldn't ignore. He had liked it and he had felt warmed all over and he knew he would have been disgusted if he didn't like her.
It was all too much to think about and so he prepared himself slowly gathering himself so that nothing would seem on when he saw her. No one else needed to know what had happened between them. Amazingly he kept his cool as she walked out onto the Quiditch pitch her hair flopping back and forth in a pony tail. Guiltily he saw that she was avoiding him and why wouldn't she, besides what had he expected, at least it wasn't worse. Yet he felt horrible, at least before they used to talk and now he had gone and ruined the friendship they had. He was being selfish and he had to pay for that. But what did people expect from him that he just go around liking her and pretend it was nothing. Well he couldn't do that anyway it was to late now the best he could hope for is that she would forget about it and they would become friends again.
Snapping out of his thought as he heard his name he swiveled around on the spot and came face to face with Ron. "Hey haven't you heard me calling your name almost a million times?" Ron asked.
"Sorry, no I've been thinking."
"Bout what?' Ron questioned
"Oh, well there are like seventy people trying out for four spots on the team and I don't know how I'm going to choose or even remember all their names," Harry lied. He didn't really expect Ron to buy it but he didn't think that he would press the matter after all they had only become friends again last night.
When Ron spoke he did sound a little unconvinced, "Ya I guess that would have anyone thinking, I'm glad I don't have to do it."
"Consider yourself lucky, still I need your help. Come on lets go and gather them up it looks like most of them are here." Harry turned and strode in the direction of the center of the field and Ron followed looking around at the eager and nervous Griffindors most of, which were very young not much more than second, or third years.
As they made it to the center of the field Katie Bell came over. "Lucky if we get through all of these guys today," she remarked.
"Tell me about it," Harry said. "Okay you lot come on in, first of all anyone who wants to try out for one of the two chaser positions stay the rest of you come back after 12:00 noon." Some 30 kids broke away and left and Harry continued on, "Now we'll go from oldest years to the youngest, anyone from the seventh year come forward and sign your name on the clipboard." Five people broke away from the crowd, two guys and three girls and signed their names on the list then retreated to the front of the crowd.
In a couple minutes everyone there had their name on the list, "Now when I call your name come forward and show us what you've got." Harry called forward two of the seventh years. "Okay, Katie I want you to get in there and see how they work with you." Harry grabbed the quaffle from the trunk at his feet and tossed it to Katie, "Ron get up there and do your job while I watch."
Mounting their brooms the five of them kicked of together, Harry with his clipboard and pen in hand. Ron headed of toward the hoops as Katie briefly huddled to discuss a simple plan. Overall the blond girl wasn't completely bad, but the brunette was embarrassing she dropped the quaffle every time she had it in her hand and she wasn't a very good flier either. He decided that he would leave the name and cross it out the minute anyone better came along. He didn't have to wait that long the next two kids were both better than the first pair of girls although he wasn't awed.
The tryouts were agonizingly long and some of the people who tried out were so horrible he didn't even watch after the first couple of seconds before crossing their names out. "Colin Creevey and Ginny Weasley," He said in a normal voice. Looking up he saw Ginny and Colin going over to talk to Katie. He watched keenly and had to admit that Ginny was really good but also noticed how she was a natural on the broom. She dived abruptly following the quaffle flawlessly. Her passes were confident and on target. She managed to get it passed Ron almost every single time making him fumble out of frustration. However the same could not be said for Colin. He was decent but not as good as Ginny. She was a beauty to watch, but it wasn't only her Quiditch skills he was watching. He found his mind going over how slim and agile her body was. He repeatedly thought off her quick reflexes and stunning beauty was so amazing he felt he could watch them all day.
Then he realized that it was beyond what he needed to see to make a decision about whether they were on the team or not, "Okay that's enough from you guys," he called out suddenly and saw Ginny drop the quaffle in surprise. She quickly dived down to retrieve it, tossing it to Katie she dove down again landing gracefully and making her way to the double doors chatting avidly with Colin who had his arm around her. He felt a boiling wave of anger and jealousy toward Colin and quickly turned around to call on the next pair to tryout. The rest of the tryouts took forever.
In the end he had a couple minutes left before the kids trying out for Beaters would come in so he flew over to discuss the people who would become the new chasers with Ron and Katie.
"Well I think Ginny is defiantly a good chaser," Katie said immediately, Ron nodded his head in agreement.
"Okay," Harry said glad that the others had thought she was good to, he put a star beside her name. "Who else how about the 6th year boy, I think his name was Andrew."
"He was okay," Katie said, "But I think the 4th year kid was good, I think his name is Josh."
"Ya I found him hard to predict, I think he'd be good," Ron said.
"I was watching him he's really good, Okay then Josh and Ginny," Harry said. Looking down he saw that a bunch of kids had just walked onto the field. Oh great the beaters he mumbled to himself. He landed in front of them and told them exactly what to do. It took them two hours to get though everybody. In the end they picked a 6th year, Matthew and a third year girl, Amanda who was unbelievably strong for her size.
They headed into the familiar change room and changed quickly. They crossed the Quiditch pitch and headed down towards the great hall. Katie left them in near the marble staircase. In the entrance hall they were joined by and absurdly dressed Luna and to Harry's uncomfort Ginny. Ginny didn't look at him but she didn't completely ignore everything he said, in fact she acted as if everything were normal except for the fact that she was avoiding his gaze. He felt guilty and supposed he should apologize but somehow he thought that it would be harder done then said so he decided to leave the matter for now and think about it when his mind wasn't so tired.
In the great hall Luna left them for the Ravenclaw table and Ginny Ron and Harry sat down to begin an early dinner.
"You made the team," Harry said suddenly, he felt he should make up for making her feeling uncomfortable earlier.
"Oh really, sure it wasn't out of favoritism or pity or some other reason," she said catching Harry's eye and staring meaningfully.
"No, the whole team decided you were really good," Ron said while attempting to grab a leg of chicken from the near by plate.
"Great I should go tell my friends,"
"But you've barely eaten," protested Harry just having her around warmed him up a bit.
"I'm not hungry," With that she got up and left. - End of chapter 6 - TBC