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Chapter 8- Fellowship of the Phoenix- The Quidditch Match
Soon enough the teams had been fully chosen for the five-on-five game.
James' team, as Scottie had guessed, consisted of Sirius, the new boys Peter and Remus, Emma, and James himself.
Scottie, being the only boy on his team, though not intimidated in the least, had chosen Lily, of course, Maggie, Charlotte and Lydia.
A small audience had gathered now. There was the rest of the Turner family, and Mrs. Potter was talking with James' team on the other side of the field with a piece of parchment, but the rest Lily didn't know. Though she assumed they must either be neighbors, friends of the Potter's, or the families of the other players.
"Hello dears!" Mrs. Potter exclaimed as she walked gracefully towards them with her pretty figure and the piece of parchment in her hand.
"Have you found your positions? Oh Scottie you need not tell me, of course you're beater! However, the rest of you I know not what position you're planing to play."
Scottie smiled, "Who's playing what on the other team? If we know who's playing what position we could make better match-ups."
Mrs. Potter agreed and handed over her piece of parchment.
Scottie read aloud the positions to be played. "Remus- Keeper, Peter- Beater, Emma- Seeker –but wait I thought James would be seeker!" Scottie questioned.
"So did I." Mrs. Potter whispered, just as confused.
Scottie thought for a moment, and brightened up, as if he'd figured something out, though he said nothing, and read off the last positions.
"Sirius- Chaser, and James- Chaser?" He asked himself with a smile.
Lily watched him look at the other side of the field.
James was over there staring at them, or more specifically her, he had mischief in his eyes, Lily could tell even from a far, for her sister gave a look like it when she was planning something.
"Petunia." Lily thought, oh why must he make such a face? Now Lily felt even more nervous. She looked back to her team. Scottie was speaking to them still.
"Why would he play as chaser if he has so much skill in the other positions, though I will say Emma's not too bad as seeker either!"
"Well we still need to determine our positions, besides you Mr. Scottie! So who's playing what?" Charlotte demanded.
Scottie grinned he had already planned it as he had read off the names. He glanced once more at the other team, now heading to a small shed-like building. Then he spoke.
"Well Lydia is to be seeker, Charlotte you're keeper, and Maggie and Lily are the chasers!"
The girls gave Scottie surprised looks, before Maggie asked,
"Why me and Lily? We aren't nearly as good as Charlotte and Lydia, why put us on chaser?"
Lydia understood, "Because you look so much alike it'll confuse them. Not to mention that James will think you aren't as much of a threat, so you'll have the advantage to through some surprising moves until he toughens up." She paused to look at Scottie,
"Besides, we saw you practicing. You two are quite the team it seems."
"I'm in!" Lily stepped forward,
"Then so am I!" Maggie smiled and she too stepped forward.
"And I!" Charlotte yelled.
Scottie and Lydia exchanged looks and laughed, this game looked in their favor after all. And in Scottie's opinion, it was all because of Lily.
Soon Scottie led the group into a small fort.
It was surprisingly large inside. Banners lined the walls, each a different color in a small section. One was scarlet, another gold, another sapphire, another emerald, a tiny white one, and the last was black.
Scottie led them into the emerald room. The room had small stalls, which contained a locker with a showerhead, and a small single broom rack. There were also four sets of quidditch robes in the four Hogwarts colors in each stall. They all hung on a hook, and a set of quidditch armor was placed inside each locker
"We're the blue team, James is red." Scottie told them, and they all chose a stall.
Soon enough, the entire team was changed into their blue quidditch robes, and Scottie led them, to another room. The black room.
There was a large door in front of them, and a storage closet was in the far corner, with a broom rack.
The team waited to be called onto the field, and soon enough they heard Emmitt's voice!
"Welcome everyone! To Potter Pitch! We have a special game to be played today, the Scarlet team versus the Sapphire team!" His sweet voice projected throughout the pitch.
"And now for our players!" and the crowd began to cheer.
"Our captains! James Potter playing as chaser 1, and my brother, Scottie Turner playing beater! GO SCOTTIE! Sorry James, but most of my family's on his team!" He shrugged as the two captains flew onto the bottom of the field, and shook hands before mounting into the air once more.
"And the rest of our players:
Blue team chasers: Miss Maggie Potter, and Miss Lily Evans! Go Get 'Em Girls!
Red team chaser 2: Mr. Sirius Black, and beater: Mr. Peter Pettigrew!
Blue team seeker: LYDIA TURNER! (Emmitt shouted wildly for his elder sister)
Red team seeker: Miss Emma Willams!
Blue team Keeper: CHARLOTTE TURNER! (Once again!)
And Red team Keeper: Mr. Remus Lupin!"
The little crowd applauded as all the players entered the player circle.
Lily looked about the small circle, and this time many sets of eyes were upon her.
Scottie was giving her supporting looks, Maggie was smiling at her madly, Sirius was giving her sly looks, Remus looked at her kindly across the circle, but James. Oh! He looked absolutely courageous, and mischievous with a yearning for the competition to start.
Below her she saw an old chest, the chest that held the bludgers, the quaffle, and the snitch. A man with dark hair walked over to it and unlocked the bludgers, while Charlotte and Remus flew to the hoops.
He opened the snitch from the coat-of-arms, and then, to Lily's horror, the quaffle. He threw it into the air, and all of a sudden the game was confusion.
All the players seemed to react at once, Lily in the midst of it. She saw Maggie grab the quaffle and shot off along side her.
The boys, Lily saw, weren't far behind. They were gaining swiftly and each looked utterly determined.
James winked at her, and Lily frowned, as she turned back to Maggie.
"The thunder execution?" Maggie yelled to Lily. The thunder execution was a move they'd practiced earlier that day with Charlotte.
Lily nodded her approval and shot upwards. She hovered slightly before flying forward above Remus, watching Maggie intently.
The boys, apparently, didn't know what the girls were doing, and kept following Maggie, who smiled, and gave a nod to Lily, and Scottie.
Scottie shot a bludger as Lily swooped in by Remus to distract him. Then it went seriously wrong.
The bludger headed straight for Maggie, instead of behind her. She tried to duck, but it was too late, and instead the bludger hit her squarely in the forehead, and she dropped the quaffle, as she drooped on her broom.Not only this, but the scarlet team beater, Peter, had also launched a bludger while watching the example of Scottie. However, his aim was horrible, and instead it hit Sirius a top the head also. He almost fell off his broom, but thanks to the small distance between himself and James, James caught him as he toppled over.
The game had been brought to time-out immediately, and both players were brought off the field. Maggie was held in her aunt's arms, and James and Remus brought the knocked out Sirius to a third fort behind Mrs. Potter.
All players waited impatiently among the bleachers with their families, all except Lily.
Lily had found a small cubby to the side of the bleachers, and had placed her broom gently in a nook. She found a clean piece of turf, and had begun to cry.
She blamed herself for this, because of her stupid urge of competitiveness she had put her closest friend's life in some amount of danger. What would Charlotte think of her now, not only that, what would Maggie think when she recovered! If she recovered, she thought.
She cried, and whispered through sobs, "Why did I come here?"
"Why did you?" said a compassionate voice.
Lily looked up it was James.
Lily gasped, "What must he think of me now?" she thought at the tears rolling down her flushed cheeks.
James just smiled affectionately as she looked at him with sad eyes. He had the notion to say something to cheer her up, but what, so he brushed it away.
He just looked at her for a few moments, how beautiful she was, even with sparkling tears falling from her perfect eyes. Her wind blown hair had resulted in lovely curlets, which caressed her face beautifully. And how she could play quidditch!
He felt slightly older as he thought this, he had never cared for one girl in particular before. And what a great choice! She was athletic, beautiful, competitive, and playful all rolled into one.
As James thought this he didn't notice that Scottie had come looking for them.
"Heavens Lily, what's the matter!" He shouted, then looked to James, "What did you say to her?" He looked mad now. Lily looked up,
"It's not his fault, he came looking for me, but is Maggie okay?"
Scottie stepped out of the way for James and Lily. "She will be fine, as will Sirius." He looked to James, "But we might have to cancel the game, I'm not sure we have enough players. It's really up to you James. I'm fine if you don't want to put your team through this, but I'm game if you want to play." He glanced at Lily, who had wiped away her tears.
"I'll do it if you still want me to, I'm not much help." Lily replied.
Scottie grinned, and looked to James.
James thought briefly, "Well-" he started, but then he looked to Lily who had put on her competitive face again. She could tell James felt the loss of his friend, but she was determined to show her brains, and win this game for Maggie!
James, who would think he couldn't be persuaded to anything once he set his mind to it, made an exception in this case, and agreed if his team would help.
Time-in was called, and each team was given a penalty shot.
James shot first, and won 10 points for his team (much to the disdain of Charlotte), and Lily shot second, and won the same.
The game started up again, and now Lily had fully lost her fear.
"This is for Maggie!" she thought to herself, and kicked the quaffle out from under James' arm into the air, where Lydia caught it, and passed it back to Lily instantly.
Later on the game had been going for three hours, but Lily had not given up.
Every time she felt tired, she remembered how Maggie had given her the broom beneath her. She had to win this, to repay Maggie.
Lily had been successful in her attempt so far. She had won 30 points all by herself, and 30 more with the help of Lydia at the beginning. Though she finally persuaded Lydia to devote herself to looking for the snitch while they were still winning.
James, had also been working hard, alone he had won his team 50 points, and was now flying towards the blue team hoop when something hit it out of his arms. But it wasn't Lily.
A bludger had gone through his rounded arm, and hit the quaffle out of his possession.
He looked up, astonished slightly, to see Lydia, very pleased with herself and a beater bat in her hand, which she quickly gave back to her brother who just shrugged.
James looked for where it had gone. Soon, a blue streak appeared heading for his teams' hoops. It must be Lily!
However, this girl had brown hair, it was Charlotte!
Since his broom was quicker, a Lightning model broom, he caught up with her relatively fast, but she had no quaffle. Then he heard it. Someone had made a goal.
Another blue swish rounded next to Charlotte. Lily had made the goal.
They'd tricked him.
Soon enough the whistle blew, and Lydia had caught the snitch.
James had been able to tie with Lily, goal wise. Though his team had been brought down in the end. Not that James had thought his team capable of winning entirely.
He didn't care though, because he'd lost it to the girl of his dreams. So at least she was happy.
James watched as his mother came towards the group, along with the rest of the families.
"Come James, we're having quite a few guests over this evening." She said, and walked to the house.
Now before him was Lily, a grateful smile on her face. "Good game Mr. Potter."
James joked, "Good game-" then he realized he didn't remember her last name.
She smiled "Miss Evans."
James smiled back, "Good game Miss Evans. I hope you'll be coming for the festivities tonight. It is in honor of your success anyway."
Lily nodded as Charlotte came in next to her.
"I just asked my mother, we'll be over after some cleaning up, Emma's coming with us. And we have to check on Maggie, but she's at your house so-"
James chuckled as he cut off Charlotte's chatter, "Alright then we'll expect you in an hour, yes?"
The girls nodded happily, and ran off waving.
A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers, and I need at least 2 reviews before I upload again!