Tormented Tryouts
Hermione woke the next morning to a splitting headache. She couldn't even move her head. By the sounds of the groans and moans coming from Ginny and the upheaval from Lavender in the bathroom she guessed that they felt the same way. Hermione groaned out loud and then heard Ginny whisper, "shh Hermione not so loud" She couldn't handle this she needed to make her headache stop. So Hermione slowly and quietly made her way out of bed and went to her potions kit. She could mix up a simple remedy that only took seconds to prepare to take care of her and her other unfortunate friends' hangover. She knew she was still a little bit drunk when she couldn't even remember the simplest of ingredients for the potion, until she sat and thought about it for a second.
When it was ready Hermione took out her wand and conjured up a glass to put the contents of her caldron in. The liquid was vile and green looking with a faint aroma of the change room after a Quiddich game. She took the first gulp and it tasted just as vile as it smelled, but it relieved her headache in a heartbeat. She went over to Ginny who lie in her bed with the covers wrapped around her. "Cheers mate" she said and handed her the glass. Ginny greedily took a gulp of the liquid and looked as if she was about to spew out the contents in her mouth, but she swallowed and in that few seconds her headache too was gone. They went into the bathroom and helped Lavender to drink it, which it took her two times before she was able to get the contents down long enough for the effect to wear in. Now all that was left of last night was their memories, before a couple drinks and how rough they looked. The three girls were staring at them selves in the mirror. "These bags under our eyes will take a week to get rid of!" Ginny exclaimed. "Tell me about it, we look like butch ladies" Lavender added in. "Well let's go and see how the guys are doing shall we?" Hermione asked.
The three went in and 'overly happily' as they might have called it, greeted the boys. Who were just as rough looking as they were. So the potion got passed around and in turn they all felt better from the night before. "Good thing today isn't a school day," Ron said to them. "Seamus looked at his watch and then laughed. "Well if it was a school day, then it would be lunch right now" "Well we better get down to the Great Hall pretty quick or else lunch will be over." Ron said, and around that moment they heard their stomachs growling or telling its owner that they were hungry. In five minutes they were able to get through the portrait hole, pyjamas still on, but a touch of makeup added in the girls ensemble.
Down at breakfast a numerous amount of Gryffendor's kept on asking Harry what time the first tryouts were for the Quiddich team were today. Harry, being himself totally forgot that he was captain and that he scheduled the tryouts to be today. "Umm after dinner" he told each one of them and they sped off getting ready to practice for that night. "So Ron are you going to stay as keeper this year?" Harry asked him. "I don't know, I don't really like it I mean I think I'm going to try beater this year." He responded to Harry as he crammed almost a whole piece of toast into his mouth. They spent the next few minutes of breakfast talking about Quiddich, the basis of almost all of their conversations.
When the three of them had finished lunch, they decided to go up to the common room and make them selves at least partially decent. They would have waited for Ginny, but she was having a fun enough time, and Lavender said for them to go ahead with out her because she had to return a book to the library.
So the day wore on and Ginny, Neville, Lavender, Dean and Seamus found the three outside after they too, had made themselves decent too. They spent the rest of the day outside, just having fun. Ron got thrown into the lake, accompanied by Harry, who was trying to throw Hermione and Lavender in. When it started to become dinnertime they went inside and ate quickly, for they were going to help Harry set up the field for Quiddich tryouts. Harry, Ron, Ginny and Seamus all went up stairs to get their brooms and met the others at the bottom of the moving staircases.
They got out the balls and did a few practice runs on their brooms until the people who were going to try out came. In the end, the group got withered down until the real people who really wanted to try out were left. There were a mass amount of giggling girls who were just there to see Harry, and some people from other houses came to tryout too.
Finally he had his team after two hours of people flying around the field, he finally got his end result. He of course was Seeker, Ginny and Ron were Beaters, a deadly duo who worked together almost as good as the twins did, Katie Bell, Seamus and Dean were all Chasers, Dean would have to borrow a broom from the school until he buys his own, and Jason Strombell was the Keeper, even though he was tiny, he could block the rings as if he was a giant, almost all of Katie's shots pelted at him didn't go through, and she was actually trying.
Harry and his team, accompanied by Hermione Neville and Lavender who watched the whole thing from the bleachers, walked tiredly up to the Gryffendor tower together.
