Chasing you (James Potter x oc)

1. First step to victory

Noa Lewis was laying in the grass of her little garden at the back of her house in London, enjoying the last few rays of sunshine of the day, even maybe of the year. It was already the end of August and in England it also meant the end of the nice weather. But the end of the summer especially meant the beginning of the school year. Noa was really excited to go back to Hogwarts, she loved studying there, she had amazing friends there, good grades and most of all she could practice her favorite sport ever: quidditch. This was also the reason why she was laying there in the grass, she still hadn't received her new year letter and was starting to be worried, she was expecting a big news in this letter. Indeed Noa was a chaser in the Slytherin team since a few years now and for her 6th year she hoped she would make it as captain of the team. She knew she had nothing to be worried about, her best friend, Leah who was also in Slytherin with her and who happened to live in London, reassured Noa by telling her she that also hadn't received her letter. So now all that Noa could do was wait and pray for good news to arrive soon.

She was daydreaming about quidditch, she missed the thrill she felt when she was on a broom. Living in the center of London didn't allow her to play during the summer. Indeed, muggles would get crazy if they saw a young girl flying on a broom in the middle of Hyde Park. It was in these moments that she was jealous of those wizzards who lived far away from all civilisation and who were able to live freely without worrying about muggles. But Noa's mom was herself a muggle, and she was the one who insisted to live in the big city. Some of the most conservative Slytherin didn't accept Noa as one of them because she wasn't a pureblood, but thankfully most of the people in Hogwarts didn't care about this pureblood nonsense. But despite what some people could say Noa knew that she belongged in Slytherin. Indeed she was a very ambitious young witch, and she was ready to do whatever it took to achieve her ultimate goal: become a professional quidditch player.
Suddenly she heard someone calling for her inside her house so she decided to get up to see who was screaming her name.

"Noa ! They're here ! They're here!"

Noa's younger brother, Christopher, was standing in front of her and he was holding two big letters with the Hogwarts stamp, their names were written in an emerauld green ink. These letters could only be their annual back to school letters, and one of these letter would let them know if Noa was worthy enough to lead her own quidditch team. She took the letter from her brother's hand and stared at it for a few seconds.

"Don't you open it ?" Christopher asked. Christopher was almost as tall as Noa although he would only start his 4th year at Hogwarts, in Ravenclaw. With his blond hair and green eyes he looked a lot like Noa, except that he had to wear glasses to be able to see.

"It's a bit silly, but now that I finally have this letter I'm scared to open it. What if I am actually not as good as I thought?

-Noa, I've seen you play and you are an amazing
quidditch player, you put so much passion in it, it is almost mesmerizing. And this is coming from someone who doesn't like it. So if even I can find some kind of pleasure in watching you play I am sure that professor Slughorn will make the right decision and appoint you as quidditch captain.

-Oh Christopher, when did you become so wise?

-Some might say I've always been."

Noa laughed and finally opened the letter. She didn't bother reading the top of it and looked for the part that interested her the most. Until she finally found it : "After careful consideration, it has been decided that you would be the new appointed Slytherin quidditch captain. We are hoping that you will succesfully lead this team to victory".
Noa immediatly felt relief alongside some excitement, she was grinning. The year hadn't even started and she already knew that it would be a great one.