Frequent Flyer (A Harry Potter fanfic)

Quidditch

Sophie wasn’t sure what had happened that night, because neither James nor Lily would talk about it, but one thing was very clear....James was going out of his way to prove to Lily he was a changed man. No pranks, no catcalls, no house elves delivering  love notes, he didn’t ask her out, he didn’t talk to her when it wasn’t necessary and he didn’t ignore her either. James was treating Lily like a classmate that he barely knew. And Lily seemed happy about it. 

                And so the first weeks of their seventh year moved on. McGonagall still hadn’t made a choice as to the captaincy and Sophie and Sirius were getting worried. Just when he couldn’t stand it Sirius was FINALLY called to Minnie’s office. And when he got there he stopped dead in his tracks. “What are YOU doing here?” he asked Sophie rudely. “I was going to ask you the same thing Black.”

“Oh dear, you two are going to have to get along a little better than that if you are going to put together a fit team this year, as co-captains I expect-“

“CO-CAPTAINS??”

They looked at each other having just screeched the same incredulous word.  “I’ve never even heard of there being co-captains for a house team!” Black whined.

“Like I was saying, as co-captains I expect you two to work together to make sure Gryffindor is fit for the cup this year. If it takes a third captain SO BE IT! Now if there are any MAJOR disagreements you can ask me for a tie breaker vote, but I expect you two to handle this team without any outside influence. Its your baby and it will work if you want it to.”

“She’s a sadist!” Sophie whined on their way back to the common room.

“Tell me about it!”

Sirius had no desire to share the captain position, much less with a female. And yeah, so Sophie is a really good chaser, and so what if she happens to be well liked on the team, and in general actually, and so what If she looks fitter than ever this year…erm wait….

“Look we’ll sit down tomorrow and work out how this will go, when to hold tryouts and all ok?” Sophie couldn’t wait to get away from him. He was staring at her way too intensely.

“Right, I have to tell you that I am not happy about this but I want to win the cup too so we’ll make it work ok?” 

Sophie barely threw back a “Yep!” before bounding up the stairs.