Blitzditch

JKR owns everything, it's her world I'm just playing in it

Chapter 5:

Al wasn't sure at first if there was someone knocking on his door or in his head. He couldn't remember how much he drank last night, but he figured it must have been a good time since he wasn't the only person in his bed.

Untangling himself from the limbs, Al slipped out of bed. Grabbing a robe from the hook on the door Al quickly put it on as someone knocked on the door again.

"James, what are you doing here?" Al asked stepping aside for his brother. He always did question his brother's fashion choices. Unbuttoned shirt, navy blazer, jeans and dress shoes. Al shook his head, some fads he'd never catch on to.

"I got work for you little brother" James replied tossing a weird looking ball into the air and catching it.

"I don't know what part of vacation people are having a difficulty understanding" Al muttered as he walked into the kitchen. "Want a cuppa?"

"Yeah sure" James replied.

Conrad, Al's roommate, walked into the kitchen completely naked. "Here you are Al. Gracie and I were wondering where you got to. Oh, hello James. I didn't see you there."

James adverted his eyes. "Hi Conrad. How's it hanging?"

Conrad chuckled. "Move out of the way Al, you always burn the coffee. Go sit down and talk to your brother. It's not often he comes by to visit."

Mostly that was because James didn't like walking in on scenes like this. James didn't have a problem with his brother's taste, he just didn't understand it. But hey, whatever makes him happy.

"What's with the ball?"

Al asked leading his brother into his office.

"I need you to curse it."

Al blinked. "Let me shut the door. My office is soundproof and I don't want Gracie to overhear something she shouldn't."

After Al shut the door he sat back down and tried to figure out the right way to say what needed to be said.

"You know cursing things is the opposite of what I do. In fact, cursed objects are illegal."

James shook his head. "This isn't for muggle baiting. It's for Blitzball. I'm going to be changing it up a bit. In the game when someone tackles a player they can poison, weaken, or make their opponent fall asleep. We're not going to allow wands in the water. So instead I want to curse the ball. To keep the game going and prevent ball hogs we're going to curse the ball so anyone who holds it for more than say fifteen seconds gets zapped, burned, put to sleep, poisoned, energy drained. Etc"

"That's crazy, you'd need to keep a mediwitch team on staff to stop people from drowning once they fall asleep or I don't know electrocuting everyone in the water when the ball tries to zap someone."

James shrugged, "That can be arranged."

"It'll still be complicated. Are you sure you only want to use one ball?"

"I've been thinking about that too. Two blitzballs, one that burns or shocks, and then another ball that freezes you in place or makes you fall asleep."

"it's hard to breath underwater when you're sleep."

"Roxy and Rose are working on that" James said waving that off with his hand.

"I'll see what I can do, you just make sure that none of this stuff you're proposing is illegal."

"We'll get to that part later. Lucy, Roxy, Rose, and Lily are all coming into the office tomorrow. You should come by too and check things out. Oh that reminds me. Family dinner at the Burrow on Sunday. Mum wants to make sure we all show up."

Al grumbled. He wasn't a fan of big family get togethers. They were too loud and hectic and Nana Weasley always thought it was a good idea to hound Al about settling down. He was only twenty for Merlin's sake. Besides Nana, and most of the Weasleys for that matter, don't know about Al's bisexual tendencies. Al knew they wouldn't understand. His immediate family doesn't judge him, but he'd doubt the rest of the family would be that open. It wasn't something that was widely accepted by muggles yet, and wizards are far behind them when it comes to equality and social standings. The world was no longer ran by pureblood fascist, but it was still full of old fashioned people who don't adapt well to change. Heck Uncle Ron was still confused about that fact that Gryffindors and Slytherins no longer hate each other on principle. Pre-marital sex is frowned upon. And they still shun people who get pregnant out of wedlock.

In some ways the wizarding world was so great, and in others it was like they're stuck in the seventeenth century.

"I'll think about it" Al finally replied.

"So what's Boytoy in the kitchen making for breakfast?" James asked.

Al rolled his eyes, "He's on a no gluten, no sugar, no dairy diet and he's making me suffer through it with him."

"What's gluten? Sounds disgusting?"

"I have no idea. We might as well go see what he made. I won't hear the end of it if you left without at least trying breakfast."

"As long as the guy puts some pants on" James muttered.

"He's probably wearing an apron, if that helps" Al replied.

It didn't, at all.