Chapter 24

It was soon time for Quiddich tryouts. It was Gryffindor up first. Asher, now a seventh year, was captain. Lily and Chloe had no problems with the tryouts. They had knew kids trying out. A few first years, but they couldn't keep up. Asher was pushing him rather hard. Lily was the seeeker this time. She wanted to be better than her brother ever was, and better than Luis and better even than her mother. She wanted to be the best, and to do that she needed to be a seeer.

"You're doing great Lily,"Hooker said. He would be one of their chasers. The other chasers would be Alice and Walker. Both were good players. There were people falling off their booms, and Alice and Walker were good at grabbing the kids that fell.

The beaters on their team were Chloe and Emily. They were amazing on their brooms. Asher was the keeper, keeping the same spot he'd have for years. Lily figured he was he best keepers at the school. Maybe even better than Luis. Well, maybe close to Luis. Everyone knew that Luis was one of the best, if not the best, player in the school. At least, if he was up to it. She still worried about his injury, but if he was going to try that hard, then she would have to fight even harder to beat him.

"Wahh!" Kara yelled, falling off her broom. Chloe quickly moved and grabbed her. "See, I told you that you count on me" Once they were on the ground, "What are you doing? You're only a first year. You shouldn't be trying out until you're older."

"B-but I wanted to be like your dad and get in on my first year," Kara said. She had tears in her eyes. "I thought that if I could get on the team my parents wouldn't be so angry with me for getting into Gryffindor and not Slytherin. I just want my parents to be proud of me."

"I'm sorry. You're not good enough to on the team, but I'm sure Ashe will let you be a broom boy, or whatever they call it. Doing things like keeping the brooms in order, giving us water between matches, taking notes on the the game, all of that stuff. I'm sure Asher will let you do that.'

"Do what now?" Asher asked.

"Ah! Manager! You can be a manager and take care of everything," Chloe suggested.

"I don't know."

"Please?"

"Well since you're so sure. You better be up for the challenge."

"Y-yes sir," Kara said.

"Yay! See you can still be part of the quidditch team. You can tell your parents that. You might not be on the field, but you're on the team."

"Thank you so much Chloe! I'll work really hard and be the best manager that can be. I'll get on the team next year. I'm sure of it," Kara said with a smile, her eyes tried up.

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"Alright everyone, let's start. Let me see what you have," Anne said, the captain of the Slytherin team. "Don't think that just because you were on the team last year mean you will get on the team this year."

Albus wasn't worried about getting to be keeper. He was the best Slytherin had to offer, and Alek was a great Seeker. There would be Luis and Lily going against for seeker, and no one cared about the Ravenclaw seeker, or any of their team. He supposed they could make some dramatic come back, but everyone knew that the Ravenclaws were better at books than they are with Quiddtch.

Vlada seemed out to get him. She was trying out for beater. She was personally going right after him. She let him get hit all the time. Albus fell off his broom, and Alek quickly moved and grabbed him. "Valda what's your issue?" Alek asked, clearly unhappy. "Albus is trying out for keeper. There's no reason for him to get hurt, so knock if off."

"Alek's right. Vlada knock it off,"Anne said.

"But he's feaken Potter. He shouldn't be on the team," Vlada protested.

"He's a better player than you. If you don't knock it off you won't be on the team," Anne said.

"Fine. Fine," Vlada said.

Anne took the role of chaser, along with Vlad and Alek andDominique and Roxanne were the beaters. "I can't believe it! We're both beaters!" Roxanne said brightly.

"I know! We'll show everyone that we're the best!" Dominique said.

"Albus, aren't you happy? We all made the team this year!" Roxanne said.

"Yeah it's nice," Albus said. He was keeper again and Scorpius was their seeker. .

"Aren't you sad?" Dominique asked Scorpius. "I mean, you'll be going directly against Lily."

"We'll both do our best,"Scorpius said. "We know that each of us will do our best. I wouldn't be able ot deal with it if she let me win and I'm sure she feels the same way."

"What about Luis? He's the best seeker that anyone has ever seen," Dominique said.

"He was injured. Are you sure he'll be as good as he was before?" Scorpius asked.

"I know he's been working really hard at it. He'll be good, even if it's not as good as he was. He'll still be hard to beat," Roxanne said.

"I'll beat him," Scorpius said. "Just watch me.'"

"We''ll be counting on you," Roxanne said. "There's only so much we can do. We need you to catch the snich."

"I will, don't worry. I'll show everyone that I'm going to be the best seeker at the school. I'll show them that I can go professional. I'll make sure of it. I won't let anyone stop me,"Scorpius said/

"That's a lot to take in," Albus said.

"But I can do it," Scorpius said.

"I'm sure you'll be fine," Alek said with a smile.

"Want to watch the Hufflepuff tryouts?" Scorpius asked.

"Might be fun," Alek said. The trio went to the stands to watch the Hufflepuff try outs.

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Molly was captain of the Hufflepuff team. Her tryouts weren't as hard as the other two's tryouts. She just let them show what they could do. No yelling, no letting people know if they were doing good or what to do better.

Luis winced and fell off his broom. Molly was quickly over and grabbed him. "Luis are you okay?"

"'I'm fine. Please don' cut my from the team. I can do this," Luis said.

"I wouldn't dream of cutting you. You're still the best seeker at this school," Molly said with a smile.

Mot of the people on their team were the same team as last year. Adam, Amanda, and Bobbie were the chancers,, Evan and Ewan were beaters, and Luis was seeker with Molly was the keeper.

"Alright everyone! We're going to have a great team this year!" Molly said with a bright smile.

"Are you sure Luis is up to this?" Adam asked. "If anyone else would have fallen during try outs they wouldn't have made the team."

"But Luis is still the best. No one will be able to beat him, right Luis?" Molly asked.

"Right. I'll work really hard and be the best you all deserve for a seeker," Luis smiled. "I love qudditch I would feel horrible if I couldn't play."

"Loving the game won't make you better,"Amanda pointed out.

"I plan on working really had before our first match so I'll be ready," Luis said.

On the stands, Alek looked at Scorpius. "I think you'll be able to beat him unless he suddenly get better or back to how he was before. Right now he can't even stay on the broom. If he doesn't pull it together then Hufflepuff won't win one game this year," Alek said.

"That would be sad. I know he could have gone pro if he could keep up with how well he did last year,"Albus said. "I mean, I want us to win, but not because Luis is injured I want us to win because we deserve it."

"Yeah," Scorpius said.

"Should we stay and watch the Ravenclaw tryouts?" Alek said.

"Sure," Albus said.

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The Ravenclaw tryouts were mostly sad. Most of them weren't very good. Two people caught their eyes were Tyler, a young kid, and Charlie Le Fay. Charlie was one of the best seeker they had seen in a while. "Wow I didn't think a Ravenclaw would be so good," Alek said.

"Yeah it's crazy. They're really good. Who's that seeker?" Albus asked.

"Charlie Le Fay. I didn't think she would be any good at this," Scorpius said.

"You know her? The Le Fay family is rather famous. They're a direct descendents of the great witch Morgan Le Fay," Scorpius said. "My family was never too close to them, so I really don't know anything about her, well, I know she has an older brother, but that's about it."

"She's really good," Allbus said.

"Not as good as me," Scorpius huffed.

"Of course not," Alek said, rolling his eyes. "No one is as good as you. That's why we won the cup last year." Of course Huffepuff had one the cup the year before.

"Shut up," Scorpius said.

Alek and Albus laughed.

The Ravenclaw team was: chasers Caption Zeke, chasers were Olan, Tyler(Rosa's younger brother), and Collin. The beaters were Bess and Zeke. Keeper was Ben and seeker was Charlie.

"They look like they won't be such a push over this year," Albus said.

"Like hell will I lose to a Raveclaw, "Scorpius spat.

"You really worried they're good enough to beast Slytherin?" Alek asked.

"I think they might have a chance," Albus said.

"I can't believe you think Ravenclaw can win a match," Scorpius said. "They're all bookish and stuff, not good at sports."

"There can be bookish people who are also good at sports," Albus pointed out.

"I don't buy it. I'm sure we'll beat them. We'll beat all of them," Scorpius said.

"It's good to be confident, but it's bad to be over confident," Albus said.

"It's not over confident if I'm right," Scorpius said.

"Well try outs are over, should we head off to eat?" Alek asked.

"Okay," Albus said,