The Other Potter

Chapter 40

"We have a problem" Harry said later that night at dinner as he slammed down next to me. I had spent the afternoon with Hermione working on non-verbal magic. I still hadn't gotten very far though.

 "What?" I asked jumping at his sudden appearance. "Ron still has not been given the all clear to fly, neither have I, and neither has Ritchie" Harry yelled. "Demelza isn't playing anymore so right now the only people left on the team are you and Ginny, and Dean" Harry said and my face went pale. "And we are not allowed to postpone the match; we either fill the team or forfeit"

"Why can't you or Ritchie play?" I asked afraid of the answer. "Head wounds, Madam Pomfrey says; are very temperamental and until we finish the potions we have been given completely we are not playing" Harry growled out in a VERY Prissy voice sounding a tad like Hermione...weird.

"Well how long?" I asked and Harry groaned "For me, three weeks" He said and Ritchie sunk in his seat next to me "For me 1 month". "We have our last game until May next week" I almost shouted in shock. "What are we going to do?" Ginny asked and I huffed before calling out to Dean and waving him down to join us.

"We are going to have to hold emergency trials" Dean said and I groaned. "When?" Ginny asked. "Now" Harry answered. "Is everybody here?" I asked looking around the Gryffindor table. "Come on, it's about to get loud" Ginny said as we followed Dean and Harry to the middle of the Gryffindor table.

"Gryffindor" Harry yelled only earning himself a few stares. "Gryffindor" he tried again and achieved the same result. Ginny and I laughed before she whistled extremely loudly I had to cover my ears. Managing to get the attention of everybody in the Great hall Harry finally was able to address the Gryffindor's.

"With the majority of the Gryffindor unable to play next weekend" Harry said and the entire Slytherin table broke into snickers and laughter making me glare at them, especially Draco and Blaise. "We are holding emergency trials NOW" Ginny yelled. "We need a Keeper, a Beater, a seeker, and a Chaser" She continued.

"We are screwed" I whispered to Ritchie. "Anybody from Gryffindor interested we'll be down at the pitch in half an hour" Harry yelled. "Don't bother getting changed, you will need to help me decide who is good enough to play" Harry said and we all made to leave until I spotted Jimmy sitting at the Slytherin table looking longingly towards the door.

"I'll catch up" I said absent mindedly to Ginny before heading towards the Slytherin table "Hey" Blaise said grabbing my wrist as I passed him. "Hey" I said back looking at him briefly before refocussing on Jimmy. "So you need four out of seven players" Blaise said smirking "That sucks" he added.

"Yeah, look I gotta go work on making it only three out of seven that we need" I said looking back and Blaise. "And how are you going to do that?" Theodor asked from across the table. "Swallow my pride...and my dignity" I said before sighing and spinning to head down to Jimmy leaving the boys laughing.

"Hey" I said coming to stand behind Jimmy and Flora. "What do you want?" Flora snapped turning around. "Look I just came over here to see if Jimmy was going to retake his position as beater on the team" I said stepping back from Flora's angry face. "Why should he? Everybody in that team deserted him. Everybody in your stupid house deserted him" Flora snapped drawing attention from the Slytherin's.

"What?" I questioned amazed "Is that what you told them?" I looked at Jimmy "You know what, whatever I don't care anymore, I tried" I said before turning and leaving the Great hall and heading down to the Quidditch pitch.

After sending a bunch of first years that clearly had no idea what they were doing it finally got interesting. "Anne-Marie really has talent" I said from my spot next to Ritchie. "I sure do know how to pick em" he said not taking his eyes off his girlfriend.