New Seeker
[That afternoon, outside the castle, the students, Gryffindor and Slytherin, are lined up in two rows with brooms by their sides. The teacher, Madam Hooch, comes down the line. She has short hair and hawk yellow eyes.]
"Flying lessons!" Cheered James, Sirius and Barty.
Hooch: Good afternoon, class.
Class: Good afternoon, Madam Hooch.
Hooch: Good afternoon, Amanda, good afternoon. [to the class] Welcome to your first flying lesson. Well, what are you waiting for? Everyone step up to the left side of their broomstick. Come on now, hurry up. Stick your right hand over the broom and say, "Up."
Class: Up! [After Anna said "Up"!, the broom immediately flies into her hand.]
Anna: [amazed] Wow!
James and Sirius look proud.
Cassie: Up! [broomstick flies up and Cassiopeia smugly grins.]
Lucius and Narcissa look proud.
Rose: Up. Up!
Hooch: With feeling!
Rose: Up!! [Her broom immediately shot up and whacked her on the nose] Ooh! [Anna laughs]
Gryffindors and Barty chuckle.
Rose: Shut up, Anna. [Rose then seemingly starts to laugh after she recovered.]
Hooch: Now, once you've got hold of your broom, I want you to mount it. And grip it tight, you don't want to be sliding off the end. [the class mounts on their broomsticks] When I blow my whistle, I want each of you to kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your broom steady, hover for a moment, then lean forward slightly and touch back down. On my whistle. 3, 2... [She blows the whistle. However, Neville's broomstick somehow lifts him off the ground. Neville immediately lifts off. He looks quite frightened.]
Neville: Oh...
Hooch: Mr. Longbottom.
Girl: Neville, what are you doing?
Students: Neville... Neville...
Boy: We're not supposed to take off, yet.
Hooch: [Neville begins soaring away uncontrollably] M-M-M-Mr. Longb-!
Neville: AHH!
Hooch: Mr. Longbottom!
Neville: Down! Down! Ahhhh!
"Help him!" Said worried Lily.
Anna: Neville!
Neville: Help!!! [He immediately skyrockets towards the sky]
Hooch: Come back down this instant!
Rose: He would if he could! Help him!
Neville: AHH! [He flies uncontrollably in the air and hits a wall, conking along it and then swooping off. All the while, he is screaming. He begins to zoom back towards the group of students. Hooch quickly holds out her wand to stop him.]
Neville: Help!
Hooch: Mr. Longbottom-! [However, the students quickly stand back as Hooch dives out of the way, allowing Neville to fly right through. Neville goes through the scatter and up a tower.]
Neville: Ahhhh! Whoa! Ahhh! [Zooms past a statue of a man with a sharp spear. Neville's cloak catches on it. He is flipped off the broom and hangs there.] Oh. Ah... help!
Lily is clunching James's hand.
[He wavers, then the cloak rips through the spear, and he falls. But his cloak catches on a torch, making Neville slip off from his cloak a second later and fell to the ground.]
Hooch: Everyone out of the way! [She runs through the group, and they scatter.] Come on, get up.
Anna: Is he alright? [Hooch is helping Neville up; he has broken his wrist after he fell.]
Neville: Ow, ow, ow, ow.
Hooch: Oh, oh, oh, oh dear. It's a broken wrist. Tch, tch, tch. Poor boy. Come on now, up you get.
"Thanks Merlin he only hurt his hand." Said Lily.
[Cassie reaches down and grabs Neville's Remembrall, which has fallen from him. Hooch begins to lead Neville away with her.]
Hooch: Everyone's to keep their feet firmly on the ground while I take Mr. Longbottom to the hospital wing. Understand? If I see a single broom in the air, the one riding it will find themselves out of Hogwarts before they can say, Quidditch.
"Quidditch." Said Marauders and Barty.
[Madam Hooch leaves the field to take Neville to the hospital wing.]
Cassie: [snickers] Did you see his face? Maybe if the fat lump had given this a squeeze, he'd have remembered to fall on his arse. [She laughs. Theo chuckles. Blair gives them a disapproving look. Anna approaches her.]
Sirius and James glared at her.
"Stop glaring at her like you haven't done worse!" Said Regulus. Sirius was gonna say something, but Lily stopped him.
"He is right." Said Lily.
Anna: Give it here, Malfoy.
Cassie: No. I think I'll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find. [She hops on her broom and soars around group, then through.] How about on the roof? [Soars off and hovers several feet above the grounds.] What's the matter, Potter? Bit beyond your reach? [Finally having enough, Anna gets on her broom, Rose stops her.]
Rose: Anna, no! You heard what Madam Hooch said. Besides, you don't even know how to fly.
"Don't do that!" Said Lily.
"Too late. Potters don't back down from a challenge!" Said James and Sirius together, than look at eachother and laughed.
"It was creepy." Said Barty. Evan nodded. Regulus looks Jaelous.
[Anna flies off to face Cassie, ignoring her.]
Rose: What an idiot. [Anna is now in the air, across from Cassie.]
Anna: Give it here, Malfoy, or I'll knock you off your broom!
"Go, pup!" Cheered Sirius.
Cassie: Is that so? [Anna makes a dash for her, but Cassie twirls around her broom in a 360.] Have it your way, then. [Cassie hurls the Remembrall into the air, like a baseball. Anna zooms after the ball, speeding towards a tower. Just as she is about to hit a window, from which McGonagall is working, she catches it. McGonagall notices this and looks surprised as Anna begins to fly back down to the grounds.]
"Did... did you see that?" Said Barty.
"My goddaughter is awesome." Said Sirius.
"It was her first time on broom?" Said Regulus.
"My daughter is perfect!" Said James.
[The students all cheer as Anna lands back on the ground at ease. They run to see her.]
Boy: Nice going, Anna!
Boy 2: Oh, that was wicked, Anna!
[Blair and Theo go toward Cassie smirking teasingly.]
Blair: Aww, did little princess got her pride hurt? [Cassie glares.]
Lucius glare at Blair, feeling protective over Cassie.
Cassie: Shut up!
Theo: Oh, She did.
Cassie: You're supposed to be my friends.
Blair: We are and that gives us right to laugh at you. [Theo nodded.]
"They remind me of you and Evan." Said Regulus to Barty.
"Thank you." Said Barty.
"It wasn't a compliment." Said Regulus.
Theo: Your own fault. You challenged her.
Cassie: She refused to shake my hand first!
Theo: Don't start again! You have been talking about that damn handshake nonstop.
Barty laughs.
Blair: Well, you can at least go to your dorm to not listen to her whining. I can't even do that. [Theo looks at her sympathetically. Cassie glares at them.]
Cassie: I hate you. [Blair throws herself on Cassie.]
Blair: Nahh, you love us.
Cassie: No, i don't.
Blair&Theo: Yes, you do.
Cassie: Yes, i do...(sights) ...Unfortunatly.
"Look at her! She's so cute." Whispered smiling Lucius to Narcissa. Narcissa smiled, too.
[McGonagall appears in the grounds.]
McGonagall: Anna Potter! [Anna notices her] Follow me. [Anna sullenly follows her. Cassie smirks.]
"Why isn't Cassiopeia punished?" Asked Sirius. Lucius glares at Sirius.
[McGonagall and Anna arrive outside of Professor Quirrell's classroom. She is inside teaching, holding an iguana.]
Quirrell: An iguana s-such as this is...
McGonagall: You wait here.
Quirrell: ...an essential in-gredient.
McGonagall: Professor Quirrell, excuse me, excuse me. Could I borrow Wood for a moment, please?
Quirrell: Oh, y-yes, of course. [A boy called Oliver Wood, gets up to leave and Quirrell continues.] And the vampire b-bat... [as Wood exits the classroom, an eerie roar is heard.]
McGonagall: Potter, this is Oliver Wood. Wood, I have found you a Seeker!
"Seeker?!" Said Barty.
"But first years are never allowed in team." Said Sirius.
"I'm so proud. She managed to break the rule we couldn't." Said James. Sirius nodded proudly.
[Anna and Rose are walking through crowded halls. Sir Nicholas and a lady ghost float by.]
Nick: Have you heard? Anna Potter's the new Gryffindor Seeker. I always knew she'd do well.
Rose: Seeker? But first years never make their house teams! You must be the youngest Quidditch player in...
Anna: A century, according to McGonagall. And youngest female player.
"That's my goddaughter/daughter." Said Sirius and James.
[Fred and George approach and walk along with Rose and Anna.]
Fred: Hey, well done, Anna, Wood's just told us!
Rose: Fred and George are on the team, too. Beaters.
George: Our job is to make sure that you don't get bloodied up too bad. Can't make any promises, of course. Rough game, Quidditch.
Fred: Brutal. But no one's died in years. Someone will vanish occasionally. [They break off from Anna and Rose, who walk across a courtyard.]
George: But they'll turn up in a month or two!
"Hey! Stop scaring her!" Said Sirius.
Rose: Oh, go on, Anna. Quidditch is great. Best game there is! And you'll be great, too!
Anna: But I've never even played Quidditch. What if I make a fool of myself?
"You won't! You're a Potter." Said James.
Rose: You won't make a fool of yourself. It's in your blood.
"Exactly" Said James.
[Later, the three approach a trophy case. Rose points at a plaque of Quidditch players. One lists Anna's father as a chaser. Anna smiles.]
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