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Chapter 16
"Don't any of you understand what day it is tomorrow?" Kat said screaming at her friends.
Everyone, even Emma was sitting in the common room finishing off homework. Professor Slughorn had given them an assignment that was to be due on Monday, and as it was Friday, and no one wanted to have homework to do on the weekend, it had to be done. And as they had the last two periods free they decided that now was the best time.
"I know!" Sirius yelled clapping his hands on the desk as if it was a buzzer. "It's quidditch against Ravenclaw." He said sounding extremely revved.
"Yes! Good answer 99, but its something way, way better tomorrow!" Kat yelled again, everyone just looked at her with very strange and confused looks.
James stood up and said stubbornly, "What in the world could be better than a well played game of quidditch!"
"The second of the second is what is better!" Kat said.
"What of the what?" Lily said, looking even more confused at Kat, at that moment Kat thought that perhaps everyone else thought that she was insane.
"You're honestly telling me that none of you have ever heard of the Second of the second? Oh well, it doesn't matter, I'll explain." She said conjuring up a chalk board, and a moon map.
"Alright, as you all know we know of the three moons that orbit in the earth's solar system. (A/N lets just say that the wizard found these tiny little ones) Well, once every decade the two largest moons, Luna and Surface, cross through each others pass, but when this happens the third moon stops orbiting the Earth, in other words, it stays stationary." Kat said pointing to the chart that she had just drawn.
Lily then responded by saying, "So what you're telling us, is that a moon stops, for a whole day, but I don't understand why this is so special, or why you're so excited about it?"
"Oh, I see." Emma said, standing up, and walking over to the board. Emma had done Divination for the entire duration of her school life, except for her first two years.
She flicked her wand, and it quickly changed into a pointer.
She turned her head, and let out a huge oooh. "Oh, I see, so on the second of the second, which really means, the second day of the second month, making it the second of February, the third moon, Pole, stops the rotation of its axis all together."
Sirius looked at Emma in utter amazement, he had know idea how on earth she managed to work that out from a simple chart.
But then, to everyone amazement Peter piped up and said, "So basically, it is just a day where stupid things happen to people with magical abilities."
"Exactly!" Kat yelled excitedly, she was very much looking forward to having a good long laugh at her friends, and those who she didn't like, and to make it even funnier almost no one else would know what was happening.
"Alright, is everyone ready for our last Quidditch training session tonight?" James yelled up the Gryffindor table. With even the mention of the word quidditch the entire table broke out into roars of cheers. James smiled his evil little smile, and sat back down.
He turned to his left, and saw that Lily was sitting right next to him. He quickly turned away, then turned back to look at her. She nodded towards the door, and got up, and strutted towards it. James now had that same evil grin on his face yet again. He also got up, and quickly followed Lily.
As James left, he obviously didn't notice that Sam, the Ravenclaw captain was striding over to the Gryffindor table, which incidentally was still shouting about how brave, and how badly they were going to thrash Ravenclaw in the game tomorrow.
Sam saw James, and walked over to him, James just simply said, "Talk to Kat, Sirius, and Ellie about it." And James kept walking to go and meet Lily.
"So do any of you know exactly what tactics we are going to use against the Ravenclaw team?" Ellie asked Kat and Sirius.
"I don't know, I think that James is heading along the lines of a defense approach, OUCH!" Screamed Sirius as Ellie kicked him. They all turned to look at Sam approaching.
"Err, Kat can I have a word?" He asked casually.
"I could give you more than a word." She said angrily, she was still upset that he had kissed someone else whilst they were dating.
"What ever you have got to say to Kat, you can say to all three of us!" Sirius said defiantly, although inside he was thinking, oh bloody hell, if I leave her alone with him then there probably won't be any Sam left to play against tomorrow.
"Fine! I'll get straight to the point. We booked the pitch for tonight, not you, so how can you be saying that you're on for training if we have the pitch?" Sam asked.
"Let me ask you something Sam, do you honestly have a quidditch pitch in your back garden at home?" Ellie asked snobbishly.
"No." He replied.
"Well then we don't need a pitch to train in!" Kat said with a literal full stop at the end.
"But how, that's not allowed?" Sam asked.
"We have our ways…" Sirius said trailing off.
Sam then walked away in a huff, Kat smiled at Sirius, they high five each other, then Sirius went off to see where Emma was before he had to go to quidditch practice.
"What's up Lily?" James asked as they walked towards the lake.
"Nothing, it's just that in the past few weeks we have been spending less and less time with each other." Lily said. "You always seem to be so busy with Quidditch, the marauders, and helping others, but you never seem to take time out just to spend with me." She added whilst pouting.
"Oh lily…" James said moving in to give her a big, bear hug. "You know that I can't just reject our friends, and you know that the Marauder's are my only family left, and plus, you know how much I need quidditch." James whispered in Lilies ear.
Lily looked up and smiled lovingly at James, she knew he meant it.
"I'm so sorry about this James, you know, im just bleeding, and PMS, and I just." James stopped her by putting his index finger over her lips, just before he slowly kissed her very lightly on her lips.
Where in bloody heck name is is Emma? Sirius asked himself as he strode through the castle corridors. He was beginning to become very anxious as he had already checked every corridor at least once, the common room about five times, the girls dormitories twice, and much to Sirius's dislike, the girls showers.
He looked at his wrist watch, and saw that training started in precisely seven minutes and eleven seconds. He decided to head back to the common room, change, grab his broom, and then head off for one full scale look of the castle from the air, then meet the team on the third tower.
Fifteen minutes later the entire team was waiting on the roof of the third tower for Sirius.
"Ok everyone, it looks like Sirius is going to be a little late, so let's start without him!" James yelled as he showed the team the obstacle course he had planned out for them earlier that night.
Half an hour later Sirius showed up, he was evidentially already tired, and looked like if anyone chastised him for being late, note only would he belt them, but he would avada their ass's and sell the rest.
"Hey mate!" James yelled.
"Hey, I'm here now what are we doing?" He said, he must have signaled to James that he will have a chat later about his lateness because James just through a beaters bat at him and yelled, "Play ball!"
Three hours later the team stopped training and James made an announcement that they had to meet him in the changing rooms four hours before the game. Surprisingly nobody protested. They wanted to be in the finals as much as he did.
"Oh dear lord! I swear that if I ever train like that again, I will loose all consciousness, and then end up in St Mungo's!" Ellie said laughing. As they walked very slowly, in fact at a snail's pace back to the Gryffindor common room.
"And I wonder exactly how many times you've said that." Kat laughed, although the comment confused Ellie. Then she realized what Kat had said, and jokingly slapped her on the arm.
Kat grasped in pain, "After training like that, even you're wimpy hits hurt!"
They laughed loudly, and actually they laughed like they were drunk, continuously, and pointlessly.
Behind them James and Sirius waddled along. When Sirius made a comment, "I can never tell when they are joking and when there not, it is freaking idiotic!"
"I'm with you all the way there mates." James added.
James was about to ask where Sirius had been when Sirius said, "Prongs, tonight I thought that I had lost Emma, I searched for her for hours, and I even missed part of training, when I found her she was leaning against our tree by the lake, and she was crying."
"Padfoot…" James said slapping his back hard, "You can't start a story and not finish it, keep going!" James said jokingly.
"Well she was crying, you know her, the indestructible one, she couldn't handle it any more. She didn't understand how things could go so good, then suddenly so bad." Sirius said. He now was walking in silence, and as quietly as James could say it he said, "I'm here for you when you need me brother."
"Here is your Gryffindor quidditch team!" yelled Bennie Simons, who was the commentator, "There's the quick chaser Kat Ann, bashful beater Sirius Black, our second beater Ryan Jones, chaser Jenna Richards and your keeper Lauren Toms, the eccentric seeker Ellie Andrews and right behind her is your Gryffindor captain, James Potter!" Screamed Bennie as the team flew out onto the pitch.
"And here come the Ravenclaw team, first with Trey Smith, Fran Hoot, Georgia Hopcroft, Fred Tyrone, Ugine Bars, Claire more, and the Captain Sam Berate! It's a good line up; odds are they'll get the snitch first." Yelled Bennie.
"I'll tell you where I'll put that snitch!" Kat growled at Bennie as she flew past him. She thought well the second of the second, do your magic.
Suddenly Bennie Simmons chair broke, he fell onto the ground, and because of the rain, he slid down the stairs, and as he got up his pants slip revealing his brightly colored underwear.
"That's what you get for messing with me!" Kat said to James, he laughed, and then started barking orders at his team just as the bludger's, snitch and quaffle were being released.
"The second of the second ay Kat?" Sam said as he flew close to her.
"I'm not even carrying the quaffle you wacko!" Kat said as she sped past him.
"And from Potter to Jenna, oh and an interception by Berate! Oh that's going to leave a scar." Bennie said as Jenna fell to the ground.
"Oh he's going to pay for that!" Ellie said, then realizing that the other seeker had seen a small glint of gold.
"And Potter scores. Hopcroft the Ravenclaw seeker through to Sam Berate, but Kat Ann intercepts and oh, a goal through the middle! 50-20 to Gryffindor!" Bennie Simmons yelled excitedly.
"Ellie, the eagle only flies in the summer wind!" Sirius yelled. This was code for I see the snitch by the ground.
Ellie dived sharply, but remembering that it was the second of the second she slowed down, she knew what would happen other wise, but because she was so busy on slowing down she didn't realize how close she was to the ground, she crashed into the grass, her broom handle snapped, but that was the least of her worries, she looked like she was about to throw up the eggs benedict that she ate for breakfast.
"What in God's name is she doing?" Lily asked Emma.
"I don't know she looks like she going to barf!" Emma said giggling.
Sirius flew down to Ellie, to protect her against bludgers, and to see what was going on.
"What's wrong Ellie?" Sirius asked.
"SNITCH!" Ellie yelled throwing up the little gold ball with wings.
The entire stadium cracked out with laughter.
Lily looked at Emma, and said, "The second of the second."
Sirius whispered in Ellie's ear, "The second of the second."
James said out loud, "The second of the second."
And Kat flew over to where Sam was, she went right up to his face, as if she was about to kiss him. Sam closed his eyes, but Kat just said, "Good luck, it's the second of the second."
On the other side of the stadium the Slytherin girls were slightly distraught, Claudia had just bloke out in pimples, but she was laughing, all she could say through her laughter, "Don't worry, it will go away, it's The second of the second."
I hope you seriously enjoy this chapter! I have no idea how I managed to come up with the idea's in this, they sort of just wrote themselves.
Love Kat