Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters. They are the property of JK Rowling. I only own the new OC's which appear in the following chapters.

'Are you holding Quidditch tryouts, Harry?' Dean Thomas asked the next morning as everyone was enjoying their free time in the Gryffindor common room.

'Yea, as soon as possible.' Harry began thinking of what he had to do for these tryouts. They already had a seeker, which was him, a keeper, Ron and one chaser which was Katie Bell. 'You trying out?'

'Yea,' Dean said absentmindedly, 'I think I'd be able to. Ginny is trying out for chaser too. It'd be cool if both of us got on the team.'

Ron made a noise to suggest how his little sister shouldn't even be considered, 'Can she even play?' He looked between the group with a frown on his face.

'Yea she can Ron, stop being so stupid. You just don't think girls can play sports.' Hermione said angrily.

'I'm trying out too,' Lorena said from Harry's side, she kept her head down as she spoke, and turned another page of Advanced Defence.

'You? You?' Ron raised his hands to the air, 'Well we know you'll get on the team because the two of you are going out now.'

'Ron, I happen to be very good… Way better than you. I even suggested to Harry to get a new keeper,' She smiled sweetly at him. And even though the comment was rather embarrassing for Harry himself, as he definitely wouldn't be taking a side publicly, he did feel it was about time that Lorena gave Ron those kind of answers after all he had said to her. Ron fell silent and let the others talk. He had a scowl on his face and his arms crossed.

'Wow, did you play with Viktor Krum? You both went to Durmstrang, you must have done.'

Lorena nodded, 'Played against each other actually. There are six Quidditch teams at Durmstrang and I was on two of them, one playing seeker and the other playing chaser.'

'Wow, did you ever beat him when you were playing seeker?' Dean asked, intensely interested, Ron again made another noise and Hermione shot him a look.

Lorena looked thoughtful for a moment, 'A few times. But honestly, he's a world famous champion. Much too good for me… You need to have tricks up your sleeve for him… I prefer playing chaser. Much more to do throughout the game.'

'Oh by the way guys. How was last night?' Seamus grinned. Lorena suddenly became stiff beside Harry. She turned abruptly to look at him, her eyes wide.

'Lorena, I swear I didn't tell them anything happened-' If Seamus was going to ruin this for him now he was going to go mental. He made a deal with her, no sex until she wanted to initiate it. If Lorena thought he was boasting about sleeping with her it'd all be over.

'No not that. You know how we were so…' She glanced around at the others.

'Stoned?'

'Yea… All I wanted to do after the Room Of Requirement was go to sleep.' She whispered covering her mouth with a hand.

'So? You went to sleep. Big deal-'

'I had a detention for Melina's black eye!'

'Whoa!' Seamus interrupted, 'You were the one who gave Melina that black eye?.. She's been in the hospital wing all week, she won't go out until the bruising is gone!'

Lorena just ignored this, 'Harry, what do I do? That's my second detention since I got here, and I missed it!'

'Okay, we'll just go down to Hagrid's. Maybe he'll be able to cover for you. Come on.' Harry got up and caught Lorena's hand, 'It won't hurt to ask.'

'It might.' Lorena mumbled in an undertone as they left for Hagrid's hut.

Harry asked Lorena to send Sirius a letter with the dates for Hogsmeade weekends. He didn't have time to sit down and write a letter what with Quidditch tryouts having to be organised. Hagrid had protected Lorena against another detention by pretending she turned up. He didn't want to see Sophie's daughter get a third detention in her first month back, seeing how much she wanted to be at Hogwarts, but she had to promise Hagrid she wouldn't get another detention for a good few weeks at least.

It was Monday evening and Harry, Ron and Katie had finally got the information around to everyone. An abnormal amount of people turned up to both watch and to try out. Ron seemed to enjoy taking charge without Harry's permission, however, Harry let him proceed, he wasn't really in the mood to deal with loads of thirteen year old girls who had come to watch him. Harry was sitting up on one of the stands with Katie.

'The new girl is trying out.' Katie nodded her head to Lorena and Ginny who were both talking together, both clutching broomsticks, Lorena's being a brand new Firebolt.

'Yea. She'll be getting on the team.'

'So, it's true then?'

'What's true?'

'You're going out with her…' Katie sighed, 'You know Harry, you shouldn't let people on the team just because you're having sex with them.'

'First of all we're not having sex, and secondly she played against Viktor Krum.'

Katie looked at Lorena with a kind of scepticism that Harry didn't like, 'She looks kind of… Fragile, She surely can't be good.'

Harry didn't reply. He remained silent as groups of girls piled around him to watch the tryouts. He had to admit to himself, Lorena was very small and if she was up against one of those huge Slytherin chaser's they could probably rip her in half, but he remained hopeful that her Quidditch past was as colourful as she said it was.

'Shouldn't you get up there and test the chasers?'

'And what'll you do?' Katie asked.

'Nothing. Just sit here and watch I suppose.'

'Harry, get the fuck up. We need you to act as a chaser so we can try everyone out. And I'll take your girlfriend. I don't know if I can trust you.'

'Fine, and you'll just see how brilliant she is.' Honestly Harry didn't know, but he was sure, if she played on two different Quidditch teams against Viktor Krum she would have to be in some way capable.

The tryouts took all evening. As dark fell Harry was surprised to see a large group of people still watching, though the group of people trying out thinned gradually. As the group was being taken in alphabetical order Ginny and Lorena were close to the end. Harry looked over and saw them both sitting on the side of the Quidditch pitch on the grass, they both appeared to be laughing at whoever was trying out at that moment, which Harry obviously wasn't paying much attention to.

'God Harry, keep it in your pants.' Katie yelled, 'Keep your eyes on what's going on up here!'

Harry wasn't sure about Dean Thomas, he was okay. Harry and Katie passed him the ball as they sped down the pitch towards Ron. Occasionally he dropped the ball and it would have to be picked up by Katie. He got three Quaffels in past Ron out of a possible five. When it was time for Lorena's go, Katie looked at Harry as if to suggest that his girlfriend better be good. And she was. She had very clever tactics for defending the quaffel. Katie managed to tackle her twice, but Lorena effectively regained possession of it before they reached the end of the pitch to Ron's goal. She managed to score with every five chances. Ron began yelling that she was cheating, completely abandoning his post and speeding towards the three chasers.

'Cheating?' Lorena yelled as the night wind got stronger and blew her long hair into her face, 'Are you serious? You both saw me,' She shouted at Katie and Harry, 'He can't handle that I'd actually get on the team for being good. He just wants to be able to say I got on it because I'm going out with you.' Lorena flew down to the ground still shouting angrily. Many observers of the tryouts were looking apprehensively. And that was it, Lorena took her Firebolt and walked off the pitch with Ginny staring after her, with her mouth open. Harry attempted to land too.

'Harry no. Go talk to her after. We only have a few people left.' Harry didn't want to, but knew he had no other choice.

Ginny was also very good. She scored four out of five and Harry felt if she just had a better broom she would be as fast as Lorena. Harry greatly enjoyed chaser tryouts, but beater tryouts, he wasn't really interested in them.

'Hey, could you guys do this?'

'Harry,' Katie said incredulously, 'You're the captain, you're supposed to be picking everyone.'

'Katie, I trust your and Ron's judgement. Please, I just want to go see Lorena, by the time I get back she might be in bed.'

Katie rolled her eyes and looked at Ron who was doing his best to ignore Harry, not entirely happy with him for siding with Lorena.

'Fine.' Seeing that she wouldn't get any back up from Ron, 'Go, I have a free double period tomorrow. We'll meet up and talk about it then, okay?'

'Thanks, Katie.'

And with that Harry made his way to the ground. As soon as he landed he noticed Romilda and her friends come over. They gushed over him telling him how great he was at flying, but Harry let them know that he didn't have anytime for them, muttering that he had to go find his girlfriend, he hastily left. On his return into the castle he pulled out the map from his pocket. He knew there was no way that he would find Lorena unless he used it. He quickly scanned the map and noticed she was in the library.

'Hey, you okay?' He sat down opposite her. She had been writing slowly, unlike her usual self, pausing every now and then to look at her book. Harry noticed it was a History Of Magic book. Lorena looked at him, shrugged and then back at her parchment.

'Lorena, you have to ignore Ron. He's just being sour about all this.'

'But why? Why should he give a fuck what you do… And anyway, us going out is just going to drive him away from you and I wouldn't do that to you. You've been friends for years.'

'Seriously, he's getting much better with you.' Harry pleaded with her, Lorena raised her eyebrows, 'I swear. But, when it came to Quidditch he just got sour again. He was bitching about his sister being put on the team too. He'll just have to deal with it though.'

'Ginny's on the team?'

'Yea, you and Ginny are my votes anyway. You shouldn't have missed her tryout, she was brilliant.' Lorena smiled at him, clearly happy to be picked. They kissed momentarily, not realising that everyone was staring. Harry suddenly noticed a bunch of old Daily Prophets littering Lorena's desk, 'Hey. What are these?'

'For my History of Magic essay. It's a project that will go towards our marks for our summer tests.'

'What's yours about?' Harry picked up the first Daily Prophet, and with a pang, realised what was on the front cover, it was a picture of him and his mum alongside a very long article.

'Um… Death eater attacks…' She said nervously as he glanced at the article, '… Particularly those of the Montague family…'

'Why do you have this?'

'Background information… Harry, you know I'd never do a project on you.'

Harry just looked at her and grinned. He knew that of course, he was just shocked to see this paper. He had never thought of himself being in papers when he was a year old, even though it was a regular occurrence now. Lorena explained to him what she was doing and about the Montague's.

'You know, I thought my family were bad. But when you read about these…'

Honestly Harry wasn't too interested in History, but he kept her talking just because he enjoyed hearing her voice. It made him feel kind of sleepy, but not the bad kind of sleepy like in History of Magic, which stems from boredom, like the good, relaxing kind.

'Why them anyway?' Harry asked as he began munching a bar of chocolate he extracted from his bag, trying his best to conceal it from Madame Pince. Though as soon as he entered the library she began eying him beadily. Not trusting him in the slightest.

'Well.' Lorena began looking a bit uncomfortable, 'My Mum… Er…' She stopped talking and Harry instantly understood, 'Kubrick Montague was imprisoned in Azkaban for my Mums murder.'

'Why did he do it?'

Lorena merely shrugged, 'No one actually really knows what happened to my Mum. There was no body found… And, there have been many theories suggesting he was framed for the murder…' Lorena shrugged again, as if trying to brush the horrible thought from her mind of her mothers body at the bottom of a river or something, 'I just thought, maybe I could find out some stuff… But what can I do right? I'm only a child really.'

'Lori, why are you torturing yourself with this?'

'If you didn't know who killed your parents wouldn't you like to find out?' She raised an eyebrow at him, 'Here, I'll be back at the common room in about an hour okay? I'll see you then.' Realising that this was his queue to leave, Harry left his seat, kissed her again and walked out of the library.

The next day, Harry decided to take off Divination in order to talk to Ron and Katie, when they had a free period. They decided to sit outside by the lake while discussing their new Quidditch team.

'Who did you guys decide on for Beaters?' Harry said, finally glad to be outside so he could light a cigarette, 'Anyone I know?'

'Nope. Ferrer from seventh year.' Katie said looking at Harry's cigarette with distaste, 'His grandparents were Spanish, he'd have something in common with your girlfriend… I actually think he fancies her. He was asking us if she got on the team.' Harry frowned at this, not exactly sure if he wanted a part Spanish guy flirting with his girlfriend right in front of him during a Quidditch match.

'I never heard of him…'

'Christian Ferrer… Been here since first year. Not in any way into the Spanish culture, so you have nothing to worry about Harry. He's probably never even been there. Anyway, he's pretty strong, furthest I've ever seen anyone hit a bludger. It was pretty cool... Don't know why he never tried out before…And Angelina said he was a great snog.'

'Okay, I'll take your word for it, Katie, who's next?' He asked Ron, dismissing Katie's comment on Ferrer's kissing ability.

'Jason Appleby. Also a seventh year… We needed another guy. Too many girls on the team.'

Katie raised her eyebrows at him… 'Sorry for girls actually being able to play Quidditch… So what do you think for chasers Harry?' Katie turned to him.

'Ginny and Lorena.'

Ron let out a humourless chuckle, while muttering under his breath, 'Obviously.'

'Ron,' Katie stated angrily, 'Ginny is brilliant so deal with it.'

'Do you know how rough Slytherins get? She could be murdered!'

'She's much tougher than that Ron,' Harry said quickly before turning to Katie, 'What about Lorena?'

'What can I say? She's brilliant too… And I'm not going to apologise for what I said Harry.' Katie grinned, 'Though she did definitely earn her place on the team.'

Harry grinned back, 'Thanks for finally understanding, I'd never put someone on the team unless they deserved it.'

'Guess what I heard?' Ron said suddenly, he seemed to be feeling slightly better about this Quidditch business, 'Lorena's brother, Carlos, made the Slytherin team as a beater.'

'He must be really good too.' Katie said thoughtfully, 'It must be a family thing… What house is her sister in?'

'Ravenclaw, but she's only a first year… Their mother used to play Chaser on the Gryffindor team too.'

And that was that. The full Gryffindor team had been chosen. Harry was forced to be the one to find everyone and tell them, after much complaining, he finally got around to Ginny and Lorena. They jumped up and down together and hugged each other. Lorena then jumped to Harry and kissed him as Ginny ran off to tell Dean… Who Harry thought would be very bitter about all this. He made a mental note to avoid Dean for the next few days. Harry suddenly had a thought, he should ask Lorena to help him find Appleby and Ferrer, so that way he could claim Lorena's his in front of them by holding her hand.

'Sure, lets go.' She was suddenly very excited, and possibly this was the happiest he had ever seen her. Harry took out his map, to make finding these people much easier.

'Cool, what's that?' She asked as he held the map in his left hand and held her hand with his free one.

'Map of Hogwarts, we can see where everyone is…' Harry scanned the page for the names Appleby or Ferrer. Finding them both quickly, he was able to mark Lorena as his territory, while telling them they made it on to the Quidditch team before getting back to the Common room in less than half an hour.