Chapter 6: You Lose Some, You Lose Some
Thump. Thump.
Rose was banging her head on the table in the common room. Why did her brother have to be in Slytherin? Thump. Why did he like Slytherin? Thump. Why was Cami screaming at her? Thump. Wait- why was Cami screaming at her?
"Rose! Practice starts in five minutes!" Cami shouted.
Rose stood up and ran to the Qudditch field.
"Okay everyone!" Cami said looking around the field, "Rose Weasley!" She said.
"Here!" Rose said.
"Yvonne!" Cami said, looking at a tall, dark haired, 6th year girl who was holding a Quaffle.
"Albus!" Seeker. "Lawrence!" A short 3rd year beater. "Marc!" A very tall 5th year boy with combed brown hair and small square glasses who was keeper. Rose looked around. They were quite the mismatched team.
"Okay everyone!" Cami said, "Time to practice!"
Practice was terrible. Lawrence kept swinging wildly at the bludger, and Marc was so tall that whenever he threw the Quaffle it went 3 feet above the goal. Albus, on the other hand, was the best seeker she had ever seen. He caught the snitch in within 5 minutes! Hopefully he would do that at their first match, just to get it over with. Rose looked at Albus, who was reading, in the Gryffindor Common Room.
"How did you get to be so good at seeking?" She asked.
Albus looked up from his book.
"Well, Dad practiced with me a few times, but at the tryouts it just seemed to come to me," he said.
"Well, you better do that good in the game tonight!" Rose said.
Before she knew it Rose was on the Quidditch field in her scarlet robes, clutching her Cloudflame 200, looking at the Ravenclaw team across from her. She hopped on her broom and flew into the air. The game started so quickly, she sat there frozen until she realized what was going on. She quickly hit the bludger far away from Lawrence and towards a Ravenclaw girl holding the quaffle. The bludger hit her broom, making her drop the Quaffle almost directly in Marc's hands. He threw the Quaffle towards Cami who threw it into the goal. The rest of the game went awfully. Lawrence hit Marc with the bludger, and Cami threw the quaffle at Rose's arm, knocking the bat out of her hand and causing it to land on Yvonne, knocking her off of her broom. Once Ravenclaw was 100 points ahead, Albus quickly grabbed the snitch to end the game quickly.
Rose and the rest of the Gryffindor team spent the rest of the night in the Common Room, moaning about how embarrassed they were and blaming each other for their injuries.
"It wasn't that bad," Pip said.
"Yeah!" Jamie said, "It was worse!"
"Well, you win some, you lose some, right?" Pip said, fighting the urge to smack Jamie across the head.
"More like you lose some, you lose some," said Cami.
Rose hoped the rest of the year wasn't going to be like this.