Reality Bites Harry Potter

Another day of firsts

I woke up before the girls on the second day and I smiled, immediately going to snuggle up to Susan, knowing she would be the easiest to wake up. "Good morning, Shay" she says sleepily as she hugs me and I giggle. "Hannah, wake up" I coo softly and she groans, throwing a pillow at me. "Oh, you're like Pyper then. I will just go get some cold water" I tease, grabbing her blanket. She gives me a dirty look before getting up out of bed, "I hate you" she grumbles and I giggle. "Love you too" I say, smiling at her before starting to get dressed for the day. "Can I do your hair today? I think I can make a crown out of it if I braid it right" Susan asks softly. I nod as I sit on the bed. She takes some ribbon to braid into it and much quicker than I expected I had a braided crown on my head, complete with the rainbow ribbon I had first arrived with peeking out in places. "You look like a proper princess. It's cute" Hannah says and I beam, running downstairs, eager to come show you. "Pyper look!" I say when I see her and she smiles slightly at me. "I like it, its a lot harder to get pulled that way" she says and I roll my eyes. "Yes but also I look like a princess" I say and she rolls her eyes. "You look like a brat, same as always" she teases. I frown, turning to get food. "I like the braid" I hear Fred say and I smirk. "See? Somebody has good taste" I tease and she sighs. "It's just hair" she grumbles. The girls quickly catch up to me and we all eat in relative silence, trying to psych ourselves up for the day. "Charms first block should be fun" Hannah says and I nod. "I think I will be good at charms" I say and Susan nods. We walk to Charms and quickly find seats together. Professor Flitwick is very nice and I catch on quickly to the lesson. I was very happy to see the only class I had really struggled with so far was potions. "Keep up the good work miss Harper" he says and I smile at him as class is dismissed. We head to transfigurations and I was excited to see Professor McGonagall again. I take a seat in the front row and see her smile at me. "Shayla, it's nice to see you again. I hear you're trying out for quidditch possibly? That's rare for first years" she says and I nod. "Madame Hooch says I'm a natural" I say and she smiles again. "Of course you are, dear. I'm very proud of you" she says as other kids start filing in and she takes her place at the front of the class. I loved having McGonagall's class but I'm not gonna lie transfigurations is hard. Too much focusing on turning objects into other objects. Why couldn't it be as easy to understand as charms spells were. "Shayla, I think if you focused a bit harder you could do this. It's a simple spell" she scolds softly and I frown. "I'm trying my best" I mumble. She sighs as everyone starts gathering their things to head to their next class. I rush to Sprout's office and see her and Madame Hooch already there. "Miss Harper, I've just finished speaking with all of your professors. It seems the only one who was concerned about your work was professor McGonagall but she has agreed to allow you to try out with the understanding you will focus harder in her classroom to prove you can handle the responsibility. Does that sound fair?" Professor Sprout asks and I nod. "I agree 100 percent" I say and she smiles. "Good. Tryouts are tomorrow afternoon so please arrive right after your last class" Madame Hooch says and I nod, smiling as I head to lunch to tell the other girls. The rest of the day passes in a blur, not even double potions could ruin my good mood. I fall asleep quickly that night and wake the next day prepared to do great. I make it through classes without really retaining any information for the day (I was lucky Susan and Hannah took good notes so I could catch up later) before rushing to the quidditch fields after my last class. I see a lot of students that were taller than me and I was a bit nervous but I knew they wouldn't let me tryout if they didn't think I could do it. I had been shown the basics of every player the night before and I was really rooting for getting seeker. They let the balls go and tryouts worked like an actual game. I was told to try out as a seeker so that's what I did. I hovered the field keeping an eye out for the snitch. There was a boy doing the same thing as me and he kept throwing me dirty looks as well. I didn't let him get in my head and after a bit I saw the shiny speck that I knew to be the snitch. I dove after it, barely catching it before the other guy and he looked mad about it. I heard lots of cheering and looked to see my friends in the crowd watching tryouts. I smile at them before landing the broom. "Results will be posted tomorrow morning. It's important to remember though that just because we had you tryout as one part does not mean you will get that part. We have 3 openings this year on each team so it's really open to each team's captains to place who they choose. Good luck students" Madame hooch says and I nod, going to join my friends. "I'm beat" I sigh. Hannah smiles at me. "You used a full days energy just going in circles out there. It was AMAZING seeing you beat that Slytherin brat to the snitch. And did you see your sister? She totally made tryouts too! She did great as a beater!" She says and I smile big. It would be fun to play with my sister instead of feeling like I was leaving her out. It would be interesting to see the results tomorrow. I head to bed, sleeping well through the night.