A/N: I own nothing related to MARVEL or Harry Potter.
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Everyone was chatting to their friends at their tables, waiting on the incoming first years to make their appearance.
"Think we'll get anyone good this year?" Hunter asked. "Last year's group was a little eh."
"Oh, shove it Hunter." Tony snarked.
"Don't make me separate you two." Came Nick's voice from further up the table.
"There's a good boy, keep your toys in line." Talbot said.
"They're better toys than yours, at least mine didn't get caught doing underage magic this summer."
Talbot stood up and pulled out his wand, but before he could do anything his robes flew up over his head.
Everyone around them started laughing while Talbot straightened his robes.
Suddenly Snape was standing in their midst, "Is there a problem here?"
"No sir." Came several people's replies.
He turned to the Ravenclaw table, "Do not forget that performing magic on other students is punishable by detention and points lost. You shall do well to remember that." He turned and strode back to the teacher's table.
At that moment, the doors opened and in came the scared looking first years following Professor McGonagall.
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Clint wasn't listening to the sorting hat's song, but was instead silently tearing a piece of parchment up and folding it over several times. He took the folded paper and hooked it around a rubber band he brought in on his wrist. He took aim and tried to shoot it at Sam, across the sea of first years, but Laura elbowed him for not paying attention as he let go so his aim was off.
He watched his paper missile hit a red headed first year and couldn't help but meet her eyes as she turned to see who hit her.
He mouthed sorry and turned around. He didn't see her pick up the paper from the floor. He felt it though, when it came back to him by way of hitting him in the back of the head. He turned back around to see her lift an eyebrow and hold up a hair tie and blow on it like she was blowing smoke off a pistol.
He grinned and tilted his head in defeat.
"I hope she's a Huffle." Clint thought.
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The Ravenclaws clapped hard when first year Leopold Fitz was joined by newcomer Wanda Maximoff. She looked sad that she wasn't joining her brother Pietro at the green and silver clad table. She brightened up when Bruce started talking to her, but couldn't help trying to look for her brother across the room.
Pietro was sitting by another first year named Lincoln Campbell and they were joined shortly by a short girl named Raina Negga.
The Hufflepuffs gathered around to welcome newcomers Antoin Tripplett and Daisy Johnson to the fold.
Daisy stopped chatting to her new housemates, to cheer when Mike Peterson joined the Gryffindors.
Clint clapped and held his disappointment in when the redhaired girl, named Natasha Romanoff, went to Slytherin.
Everyone quieted down after Grant Ward also joined the Slytherin table. They waited for Dumbledore to make his speech before the plates and goblets were filled to the brim with anything they could possibly want.
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"So quidditch tryouts are next week, you still going to try out?" Peggy asked the group of second years.
Bucky, Sam and Steve all gave their assent.
"I thought you were still undecided about trying out?" Sif asked Steve.
"I was, but we got some practice in this summer."
"He'd make a pretty good chaser." Sam said.
"He's good at strategies." Bucky supplied.
"What are you two going to try-out for?"
"I'm going after keeper." Sam said. "Bucky wants to be a beater."
"You any good at hitting things?" Thea asked, overhearing what they were talking about as she come down from the girl's dormitory.
Bucky flexed his barely there arm muscle. "What do you think?"
"I think we'll just have to wait and see." She said making her way out of the common room amid laughter from the group.
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"I cannot believe Snape gave us a test. We've been here a week." Wanda said as they left their dungeon classroom.
"I, for one, find his classes the most interesting." Jemma said.
"As do I; however,…" Fitz started before Jemma cut him off.
"Find his teaching methods to be a bit harsh." Fitz nodded his agreement.
"How long have you two known each other again?" Wanda asked, still not used to the way they would finish each other's thoughts or have wordless conversations even though they were not related to each other.
"Forever." Fitz said.
"It does seem that way." Jemma added.
Wanda rolled her eyes at her two housemates before entering the great hall for lunch.
"I don't think I can eat anything today." Jemma said as they sat down.
"You'll be fine Jemma, flying isn't bad. It's quite fun actually." Fitz said.
"If people were meant to fly we would have been born with wings." She defended.
"You'll do fine, and I'll be right there to help you." He said.
"You're lucky flying is in your blood."
"How's that?" Wanda asked between bites of food.
"Oh, Leo's grandfather is a famous Quidditch player."
"He was a keeper for Puddlemere United." Fitz explained.
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"It's going to be a long day, are you sure you don't want to eat something?"
"No Laura. I'm good." Pepper said.
"Come on, let's head down." Clint stood up.
The hufflepuffs headed down to the quidditch pitch for try-outs. There were 4 openings this year and at least a dozen of their peers were going out for it.
"Looks like the entire house is down here." Laura said.
"Yeah but how many of them can fly?" Clint asked.
"Bet some of them can fly better than you." Stark said, coming up beside them.
"What are you doing here Tony?"
"Came to watch tryouts, Rhodey is going out for the team."
At that moment, a shrill whistle was heard throughout the stadium.
"Hufflepuffs here to try out need to line up next to a broom down on the pitch, everyone else needs to go to the stands." Janet announced.
"Good luck you guys." Tony said walking to the stands.
"This is it, let's go." The trio joined the other black and yellow clad students by the brooms.
"As you know, my name is Janet Van Dyne and I am this year's Hufflepuff Quidditch Captain." As she spoke the rest of the returning team joined her in the air above the wannabes. "When I sound my whistle, I want you to mount your brooms and fly up. Those of you to my right, will line up next to Phil, and those on my left, next to Roy."
She blew her whistle and waited until everyone was spaced out along the pitch. She flew down to the practice chest and retrieved the quaffle. She started at one end of the students and tossed it at the kid across from her,
"Now you toss it to the person on my left, then they will toss it to the person across from them."
She circled around them with Roy and Phil as they completed this exercise a couple of times.
She eventually moved them to different exercises, at one point sorting them into groups of three and, pretending to be chasers, fly up and down the pitch tossing the quaffle around while Roy and Phil beat a bludger at them.
They all got a chance to hit a bludger and finally she released the golden snitch.
Clint caught the snitch in just a few minutes, prompting Janet to pull him out and rereleasing the snitch to give someone else a chance. After about 20 minutes of circling the pitch, Janet sighed and told Clint he could rejoin the wannabes. He took off to the other end of the pitch and returned several minutes later with the snitch in hand.
Janet ended tryouts, telling them good job and that the results would be posted by the end of the week.
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"So how goes your practices?" Tony asked his friends.
"I'm pretty sure Thea is channeling Oliver, trying to kill us before our first game." Sam said.
"Victoria does more yelling than Andrew does." Bruce said. "He told me I was doing good though, so I guess that's something."
Everyone had been surprised when Bruce had tried out and made the team as a beater.
"At least she doesn't yell at you to move faster or open your eyes wider." Helen, as the new Ravenclaw seeker, complained.
"At least you all have another new person on your team, Fury just focuses on me." Tony said.
"Luckily we can see your forms first." Clint said.
"Yeah, Slytherin vs. Ravenclaw." Bucky said.
"Gives us a little bit more time to prepare." Steve said.
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A/N: Sorry for the delay in posting this, my muse left me for a bit, but I think it might be back for a time so I'll try to roll out some more chapters soon.
A/N: Please drop a review and let me know if it is worth continuing.