Chapter 15: She is beauty, she is grace, she will punch you in the face

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Emily Flanagan, Chris' younger sister and third chaser for the Hufflepuff quidditch team woke me up at 5:30 on Saturday morning

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Emily Flanagan, Chris' younger sister and third chaser for the Hufflepuff quidditch team woke me up at 5:30 on Saturday morning. Even though I was used to early starts from Dad and Nat's training, it didn't mean I actually liked getting up at that time. I climbed out of bed as quietly as I could, upsetting both Freya who had been curled up sound asleep and Freddie who had been using her as a bed. Pulling my quidditch gear out from my trunk as well as my bag of toiletries then dressing in a pair of black tights and my oversized dodgers hoodie, I headed down to the common room.

Danny and Cedric were waiting for me and looked just as tired as I felt. They were both sitting on one of the couches with Danny leaning on Cedric's shoulder, looking like he had fallen back asleep.

"Come on guys, we need to head down to the quidditch pitch before Chris kills us," I told them in between yawns.

I had forgotten how cold the grounds could get early in the morning and pulled my hoodie closer to me, more out of habit than anything. The cold didn't really affect me as much as it did other but it was still a subconscious reaction to shiver when it was cold. Noticing that I had pulled the hoodie tighter around me, Cedric draped an arm around my shoulders and pulled me closer to him.

"Since when does the cold bother you, dear cousin," Danny jokingly asked, as I felt the blush start to rise in my cheeks

"HA! The cold never bothered me anyway, Danny. It's just an automatic reaction," I laughed, finally owning the song that had haunted me for years.

"Nice to see SOME of the team are awake," Chris commented when he saw the three of us laughing.

"Something tells me that won't be for long," Nate, second beater commented causing Chris to glare at him.

"Now, if everyone has stopped being stupid," Chris said glaring down at Nate, "Let's head into the locker rooms and get changed."

I headed into the girl's locker room with Emily and the team's keeper Bonnie. Both girls were in their 6th year and looked out for me like a little sister. I threw my stuff in to one of the lockers, changed in to my canary yellow quidditch robes and grabbed my nimbus 2000. The team gathered in the Hufflepuff training room that under the Hufflepuff stands. Chris had set up a black board and had mapped out new plays that we were going to be trying out.

"Now, team. I have found out who Gryffindors new seeker is and honestly, I was surprised. It's Harry Potter, needless to say he must be extremely talented for Professor McGonagall to approve him to play in his first year. As you know, this is my last year at Hogwarts and I want to leave knowing that we won the Quidditch Cup," he started to tell us, tapping the black board with his wand to make the diagram start moving.

Chris continued his lecture which went for close to an hour. Danny started to fall asleep half way through, making me elbow him to wake him up. I had to hold back a laugh when he snorted when he woke up suddenly. When he finally finished all of us stared at him, expecting him to continue.

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