An Old Friend

Nifflers and Quidditch

A week later Morgan is on his way to his Care of Magical Creatures class when he stumbles and almost falls down the stairs at the front of the school as he heads outside and closes his eyes waiting to hit the ground and gets confused when he doesn’t cracking one eye open and looking up to see Draco smiling and holding him “Hey Morgan. Clumsy today?” Morgan blushes nodding and stands up “Yeah… I’m a little clumsy most of the time.” Draco smiles walking with him “I’ve seen. I have to catch you a lot.” Morgan rubs the back of his neck “Sorry about that…” Draco chuckles looking over at him “No don’t apologize. It’s fine.” Morgan smiles shyly and they walk side by side in a comfortable silence to their class and walking over to their friends Ron grinning and wolf whistling making the other two teens blush and glare and Hermione slaps the back of Ron’s head “Oww! What was that for?” Hermione rolls her eyes “For being rude. Now hush and pay attention. Hagrid is starting class.” After Hagrid talks for the entire class period about nifflers, and brings a few out to show them how they find gold and other glittery objects, and lets everyone that wants to hold one of the fluffy little cuties Morgan and Carley immediately rushing forward and gently taking one before going back to their friends. “Draco isn’t he adorable?!” Draco blinks “Umm… I guess?” Morgan pouts “He is absolutely adorable. Now pet him.” Draco sighs unable to say no to the kicked puppy look Morgan is giving him and pets the nifflers while Carley, Harry, Ron, and Hermione pet the one Carley brought over. Hagrid lets them all play with the nifflers for a few minutes until he has to put them back in their cages and  they all start heading back to the castle for lunch and Draco looks over at Morgan “Hey Morgan? Have you ever played quiditch?” Morgan smiles “Yeah. I was on the team at my school on France. I was a keeper. Pretty good at it to.” Draco grins “Great. Cause Slytherin’s team is having tryouts today after school. Our keeper graduated last year. Maybe we can be on the team together.” Morgan smiles really wanting to be on the quiditch team with Draco so they can spend more time together than they already do. And maybe he’ll finally work up the courage to ask him out.

*Slytherin Tryouts*

            Morgan jogs down to the quiditch field after class carrying his broom looking excited and hugs Draco before introducing himself to the other team members “Hi guys. I’m Morgan Winchester and I’m here to try out for the position of keeper.” A big guys with beefy arms, kinda like hairy hams, shakes Morgan’s hand “Montague. I’m the team captain. You’re the last one to try out today and I hope you’re better than the others that tried.” Morgan smiles and shakes the hand of another chaser who introduces himself as Puecy, another chaser who looks remarkably like a large sloth introduces himself as Warrington, and when Morgan turns to introduce himself to the beaters and raises an eyebrow when he sees Vincent Crabbe cowering behind Gregory Goyle and smiles “Crabbe no hard feelings man. Just don’t make me mad and we’re cool.” Crabbe looks at him warily “Really?” Morgan nods then turns to Montague “What am I doing for the tryouts?” Montague grins “We are going to have a mock quiditch game and everyone on the team will be chasers. Because if you can defend against that then you’ll be fine in the games against the other houses.” Morgan grins and nods “That’s how we trained in France. Bring it on Monty.” Morgan hops on his broom flying to one set of goal rings and sitting on his broom relaxed as he waits for them to finish getting a plan together and watches calmly not moving as they zip around the ring ignoring everything except the quaffle and the player that has it and blocks all but one of their attempts to score, at one point dangling from his broom from his legs like it’s a tree branch so he can catch one of them leaving the entire team gaping at him for the risky move, and after a while Montague calls a halt and they all land grinning at each other and looks at Morgan “Well man we’ve got to talk it over as a team and consider everyone but I’m pretty sure you got the spot. Morgan grins “Alright. You know where to find me to tell me the news.” Morgan shakes their hands and hugs Draco again before jogging back toward the castle passing the Gryffindor team and the people trying out for the position of one of their chasers and sees Carley among the group of hopefuls for the position and grins waving to her “Good luck Carley!” Carley smiles thankfully waving at her Slytherin friend “Thanks Morgan!” Morgan grins and jogs off the Slytherin dorms to take a shower.

*Gryffindor Tryouts*

            The group of hopefuls line up in front of the current members of the Gryffindor team, captain and chaser Angelina Johnson, other chaser Katie Bell, Seeker Harry Potter, Keeper Ron Weasley, and Beaters Fred and George Weasley, and Angelina steps forward to speak smiling “As you all know I’m Angelina and I’m team captain for Gryffindor. We are short a chaser since Alicia graduated last year and you all are hoping to fill her spot. Now the way we are going to do this is you will all wait in the locker rooms with Harry, Fred, and George to watch you and keep you entertained and one at a time you will be called out to see how well you work as a team with myself and Katie. Everyone understand?” The group and Carley all nod Angelina grabbing a random kid to start with and the others get ushered to the locker room by Harry and the Weasley twins. The twins entertain everyone while Harry sits and talks to Carley “Harry I’m nervous” Harry smiles at her “Well don’t be Carley. I helped you practice before break ended I know how good you are. You’re sure to get the spot.” Carley looks up at him skeptically “You really think so?” Harry smiles and hugs her “I know so.” Carley smiles hugging him back and they sit talking until its Carley’s turn and she realizes she’s the last one to try out and Harry grins “See? They were saving the best for last.” Carley giggles hugging Harry quickly before running out onto the field with her broom, a Fire bolt she had gotten as a Christmas present from her father Remus Lupin, and mounts her broom flying up to where Angelina and Katie are waiting for her catching the quaffle as its thrown to her and they race across the field doing everything from the Hawks head Attacking Formation to the Parkin’s Pincer, even doing some Reverse Passes and practicing how to do the Woollongong Shimmy without running into each other. Angelina calls a halt after a while and they land in the middle of the field putting the quaffle back in its proper place in the chest of balls and Angelina turns grinning at Carley “Well Carley there were a bunch of people that were good. But you were great!” Katie nods smiling “Out of everyone that tried out you worked with us the best and fit in the most seamlessly. We barely had to yell at all. It was like we’d been playing together for years.” Carley smiles happily tears in her eyes and hugs the two girls “Thank you! I’ve always wanted to be on the team but I never had the courage to try out!” Angelina smiles “Well we’re glad you did work up the courage to do it. Otherwise we’d have a subpar team mate this year.” Carley smiles blushing at the praise and Harry runs out hugging her “See? I told you!” The twins run up behind Harry and steal Carley lifting her up on their shoulders victoriously “Woo! Carley finally got on the team! Time to celebrate!” The whole team laughs at the twin’s antics as they carry Carley all the way to the Gryffindor common room where they celebrate with some butter beer and snacks the twins had hidden in their room.