Sunday morning came and went with Emilie going to breakfast with Neville. It was strange how she kept forgetting he was her second cousin or something. She felt bad about it and decided to get to know him a little better. Both headed down to the Great Hall and were one of the first there.

"How come you never tried out for the Quidditch team?" She asked, remembering her house's tryouts were this afternoon and she would go for the position of chaser.

"Bad incident in my first year, looking back now it must have been funny." He half hearted laughed, he started filling his plate with a fry; sausages, eggs, toast.

"I don't think I remember, but I'm sure it'll come back eventually. So you've never flew since then?" She asked, placing jam on her toast. She thought he had a good build for a beater and slicing that snake's head off showed he could swing a bat well.

"Not really and if I had it's as brief as I can make it. It'll be weird this year without Harry; Gryffindor will have to look for a new seeker. Ginny's captain of the team." He said, almost as if he just realised this. Emilie left both of them eat for a moment, her stomach was growling all night as she tossed and turned nervous about tryouts today.

"Morning, so you're trying out for chaser on the Ravenclaw team Em?" Ginny bounced into the great hall and sat opposite, as soon as she sat down she eyed up a heap of pancakes.

"Yeah, over the summer Fred's been helping me practice. I'm more confident now than my first lesson." She grinned, indeed over the summer he had her out at the break of dawn flying around the field in front of the burrow catching a 'quaffle' (muggle rugby ball) and throwing it in to some goals he had made of branches.

"I've seen you fly multiple times, you'll get in for sure." Ginny smiled, pouring loads of syrup on her pancakes. "I'm a chaser too; you're almost as good as me. Almost." She winked and dug into her food.

The trio finished their breakfast and Emilie went for a walk to clear her head before tryouts. Ginny and Neville went off in search for Hermione; she had missed breakfast and was probably asleep in the library somewhere.

The castle was quiet today, Sunday and mostly everyone was still in bed or in their common rooms getting caught up on homework. Emilie saw few people around the castle; it was quite eerie as she found the corridor that held the portraits of those lost in the 2nd wizarding war. She was shocked to see that the portraits filled the corridor, so many people had died. A lump began to fill her throat as she passed by.

First were Harry's parents, Lily and James Potter. Lily sitting down smiling and James was standing behind her with his hand on her shoulder. They must have been painted to look as if they were in their living room.

"You must be Emma's daughter. You two look so similar. How is she?" Portrait James asked, Emilie nodded and smiled.

"She's in America with my aunt, well other aunt." Emilie said, she'd never spoke to a portrait before. And Harry's parent's made it all the more bizarre.

"She's always wanted to go; she made a bucket list in our seventh year. If she completes it, come tell me; it was quite the list." He chuckled. James and Emma were like brother and sister at Hogwarts, both in the same house and had all the same friends. These were the things Emilie didn't know about her mother and almost felt like she didn't know her now with her missing memories still coming back at odd times.

"Of course, I'll tell Harry to come and see you when he can." Emilie said politely, both her aunt and uncle smiled a sad smile. She then moved on to the next portraits. Colin Creevey, a boy a few years below her she thought. Barely seventeen the boy sat in what looked like his Hogwarts dorm room, his camera on the bedside table. He smiled at her and said a friendly hello; she returned the favour and moved on. Two portraits side by side, two men who looked very similar. She read the gold at the bottom;

Sirius Black; Aged 36. 3/10/59 – 18/06/96. Best Friend, Godfather, Brother.

Regulus Arcturus Black; Aged 18. 15/05/61 – 21/10/79. Son, Brother,

These were the Black brothers, Sirius being Harry's godfather. Both men smiled at her then at each other. Sirius was murdered by his cousin, Bellatrix and Regulus by Voldemort after trying to destroy his horcruxes. Both had an impact on Harry, at different times and reasons. Emilie was in deep thought when one of them spoke.

"You remind me of a girl I used to know, Emma. You wouldn't happen to be related?" The voice said unsure.

"I'm her daughter, Emilie. It's nice to meet you both." She replied happily and looking up out of her trance. She didn't find out which one of them spoke as she realised she had to get to the Quidditch grounds quickly and with some of the new shortcuts she could surely make it on time.

She ran up the corridor again and around the corner and spotted the tapestry that showed the sea and jumped behind it, the passageway was narrow but large enough to fit two people. She ran across the castle in between the walls came out at the courtyard behind an armoured knight. Rushing down to the Quidditch grounds, she passed Hagrid's hut. He was sitting outside and waved before going back to reading his book. God knows what he's interested in this time she thought approaching the changing rooms.

There weren't many people at tryouts. Ravenclaw had a pretty good team; Cho was the seeker and team captain. There was Eliza and Daniel for the two chasers leaving one position open. A boy called Flynn was the keeper. And they needed two beaters. Emilie and a girl in her fourth year were trying out for the chaser position and two boys in their sixth year were hoping to get the beaters spot.

"Alright, I want Emilie and Hannah to fly up to the goal posts for practice. Whoever can shoot as many goals as they can get the position?" Cho shouted above the noise. Emilie gulped, goals were not her strong point but by the look on the other girl, Hannah's face suggested she wasn't so confident either. As they were told both flew up and Flynn was the keeper, guarding the posts.

Emilie had received a firebolt from her mother when she told her everything, meaning the Weasleys could use theirs when they played a match. She had carved all of her friend's initials in it one night at the handle and now looking at it; she felt like they were all there for support. She brushed her thumb over 'FW' as Cho called out the instructions.

"Emilie, you're going to go first. There will be multiple quaffles hovering and you need to score past Flynn as many times as you can before the minute is up. It's a bit intense but you'll be fine." She said, pulling out her wand and levitating the quaffles in a line. She mouthed good luck and blew the whistle.

Okay let's do this. She grabbed the first quaffle and looked at Flynn's position, she flew up towards the right goal post and he followed she smiled as she chucked the quaffle into the far left and scored. Swooping down for the next one she did the same. Again and again she changed tactics. She'd hover and then just throw the quaffle into one of the posts or distract Flynn for a millisecond before throwing it into the other post. Cho blew the whistle and Emilie started panting, she hadn't even counted herself how many she got in. She flew over to the side line and caught her breath.

"You managed to score 12 Emilie, so Hannah you need 13. If it is a tie, we'll have a mini game and see who puts the quaffle in first but I don't think there'll be a need for that." Cho called out before she blew the whistle and Hannah started. She copied Emilie's tactics, changing ever other goal. Soon a minute was up and she flew to the side out of breath.

"In a minute you got ten goals in Hannah, I'm sorry but you are offered the position of reserve in case Emilie gets injured or one of our other chasers does." Cho said, smiling at the end. Emilie was ecstatic, she'd never been on the team before or she couldn't remember. She'd have to ask Ginny later. Cho flew to her side and congratulated her, along with the other chasers Eliza and Daniel.

She watched the rest of tryouts and both boys got the beaters positions, well they had to. The team then went back into the changing rooms and Emilie jumped in the shower feeling like she was drenched in sweat. She was the only one there when she came out. She got re-dressed quickly and started brushing her soaking hair getting all the tangles out. Cursing her thick hair, she pulled her wand out of her back pocket "Siccus" She muttered and her hair was dry and straight. Grabbing her new Quidditch bag Cho gave her with her new Quidditch robes she headed on up to the castle.

By the time she got to the Great Hall it was dinner time and her friends were all sitting at the Gryffindor table, she sat herself beside Hermione and set her bag underneath the table. Exhausted she started filling her plate with potatoes and chicken.

"You got it then? That's great Em!" Hermione smiled, the group were having a conversation about their classes and how much work they'd been given due in tomorrow. Hermione had convinced Emilie to do hers the same night she got it so she didn't have that problem.

"Yeah, I scored 12 while the other girl Hannah got 10. Cho was really nice about it, she offered the girl to be our reserve in case we get hurt." Emilie said, stuffing her face with buttery potatoes. She didn't care about ladylike manners; she'd spent the whole summer with the twins and Ron.

"That's really kind of her. I didn't know she was captain until Ginny mentioned it." Hermione admitted, "You should owl Fred and the others and let them know you got on the team. All of those dawn training paid off then."

"Good idea, he can send me their new product list in the reply." Emilie thought, going back to eating her dinner and friends did too.

After a long day, Emilie was tired and walking up the Ravenclaw tower to her dorm was the cherry on the cake. She belly flopped onto her bed and almost fell asleep before she remembered to owl Fred. Dragging herself out of bed and to her desk was her mother's owl, Fauna was, and she began to write her letter.

Dear Fred,

I made it to the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, the third and final chaser. Hermione made the good point of the break of dawn training paying off. Honestly I was so nervous when we had to get the quaffle past Flynn, my team's keeper. We hadn't mastered scoring yet but I did well.

How is it at the shop, you can send the list in your reply and I'll start on designing them. I'm glad to do something other than potions and transfiguration homework, they are the longest. Neville has been helping me out with my Herbology work, I can bet he'll do something in Herbology when he leaves. Ginny and Hermione are doing really well; can you believe Malfoy is head boy? Hermione almost fainted when she found out but we've all agreed to play nice this year. I'm sure Hermione has already told Ron.

So how are you? If the shop is getting busy you know you're allowed a day off right, don't overwork yourself. I don't want to come back at Christmas and you are exhausted. Look after yourself and George but I'm sure you both are fine.

From Emilie

She read it over and realised she was blabbering on throughout it but he was used to it so shrugging she sealed it and wrote his name and gave it to Fauna; her mother had gave her to Emilie before she left for America. As bird flew out her window she got changed into her pyjamas and crawled into bed, shut the window and closed the curtains. She left out a sigh before drifting off into a deep sleep and for the first time in her life she dreamt about her father, except he was just a figure in the distance she kept running towards.

2,175 WORDS WHAT? I guess I just had a lot to put into this chapter, the corridor of portraits, Quidditch etc. Phew writing can be hard sometimes, it took me over the weekend to put this chapter together in my head as writers block is a pain. How was everyone's Halloween? I had no social life and stayed in and watched TV eating sweets; but that was good too.

I have a brief idea of who Emilie's father is, he's been mentioned before. Except I'm afraid in case I reveal who he is and you guys are like what? Why does everyone have to be related is this Once Upon A Time? My favourite show ;) so there was a clue in that sentence as well.

Have a good week, if I don't post tomorrow or during the week. As always thank you for reading this story and leave a review