Harry arrived at the quidditch pitch, Angelina was now the new Gryffindor quidditch captain, technically she was the captain last year as well but they didn't really have quidditch last year due to the bloody tournament. While Harry did not really have to be here he did come if for no other reason than supporting the team and making things easier for them. After all Angelina and the chasers had done for him he was not about to skip out on an opportunity to help repay them. Say what you want about Harry but he is appreciative of his friends.
"What's up guys?" Harry asked as he walked up to the three girls. "Where are the twins?" Harry asked when he noticed that the two red headed pranksters were not here.
"They will be here soon," Katie said before she frowned. "did you say something to them?" She asked with Angelina and Alicia looking interested in his answer.
"I have said several stuff to them, can you perhaps be specific?" Harry raised an eyebrow.
"They have been more...subdued than before." Angelina answered. "They're still their usual selves but more...I want to say mature but...just less showy and flashy."
"They are just different, I don't think we would have noticed if we didn't know them so well." Alicia added.
"Ah well, during the summer I had a conversation with the twins." Harry admitted. "I may or may not..."
"May or may not?" Katie interrupted.
"Fine," Harry rolled his eyes. "I may...I did call them out on their behaviour during the tournament and their behaviour in general. Like how their pranking could be viewed as bullying and how they want to be taken seriously but do not act serious at all. I don't really feel bad about saying it, if they grow up they grow up and if they don't then they don't." Harry shrugged.
"Oh they're coming." Alicia said as the twins walked up to them.
"Hey, sorry we're late." Fred said.
"Yeah, McGonagall wanted to ask us about something that happened to some fourth year girls, they got pranked and she thought we did it." George added.
"Yeah, took us a while to convince her that it wasn't actually us." Fred added.
"Hmm." Harry said, not willing to point out that he was the one responsible, in his defence he did it for Luna. He could not quite work out why anyone would be willing to bully the girl, strange yes but not harmful, in fact she was surprisingly innocent and genuinely nice. Though he supposed that it was simply idiots lashing out against those they could not understand.
"Alright," Angelina said as they saw people arriving for the try outs. "time to get to work." She said to the team as the quidditch hopefuls, including Ron and Ginny, lined up. "Everyone gather around, quiet down. I said quiet." Angelina paused and waited until everyone was silent. "That's good, now listen up, for those who don't know, I am Angelina Johnson, quidditch captain and chaser. With me are fellow chasers Katie Bell and Alicia Spinnet, then we also have beaters Fred and George Weasley plus none other than Harry Potter as our own seeker." Angelina said, pointing to each person as she mentioned their names. "The only position we definitely need right now is keeper, however that doesn't mean that reserve positions are not available as sometimes some of us might not be able to make practises or matches so if you are going for a chaser, seeker or beater position then you won't make the main team but could make the reserve team. Any questions so far?" Angelina asked.
"Excuse me." Ginny raised her hand.
"Yes?"
"Can someone go for more than one position?" She asked.
"No, you can go for one position but if you make the team and we think you have potential in another position then we will consider it. Are there anymore questions?" Angelina looked around and once she was suitably satisfied that nobody had questions she continued. "Alright, we are going to start with some basic drills." Angelina said as she gestured to Harry. "Potter over here will be in charge of the drills, you all will be flying around with him while the rest of us watch. Once we work out who can and cannot properly fly on a broom then we can start testing out for positions. Harry?"
"Way ahead of you." Harry said as he climbed on his broom and hovered. "Alright everyone get on your brooms, we are going to start with some laps around the pitch." Harry said. The hopefuls got on their brooms and rose to the air, Harry could already see which ones where more comfortable and experienced based on the way they held their brooms and how comfortable they were in the air. "Come on." Harry said before he began doing some basic flying drills, by the end of the drills a few hopefuls were sent away as it was clear that they really were not great flyers or even at a level that could be considered decent.
"Alright chaser and keeper hopefuls go over there to hoops, beater hopefuls over there and seeker hopefuls over there." Angelina said as she pointed to different spots on the field.
Most hopefuls went to the chaser and keeper spot while only a few went to the beater spot though none went to the seeker spot, Harry didn't really mind but was sort of hoping that at least one person would have gone for the position so that the responsibility did not fall entirely on him but apparently it did. Though he supposed that after the tryouts he could see if any of the team members had seeking skills and train them up.
"Now George, Fred, you two go deal with the beater hopefuls. Harry, could you help me and the girls out with the chasers and keepers?" Angelina asked.
"Sure." Harry nodded and followed the girls towards the chasers and keepers.
Half an hour later the Gryffindor quidditch team stood together under a privacy charm a short distance away from the hopefuls and began discussing who would make the team. After a few discussions they had settled on their beaters and their chasers which included Ginny, Harry mentioned speaking to the reserve chasers and seeing if any of them were willing to be a backup seeker in case he could not compete, something Angelina agreed with.
And then their conversation reached the point where they discussed who would be their keeper.
"It looks to me that Ryan Jefferson and Geoffrey David have potential but admittedly Ron Weasley has the most." Angelina said, as he glanced at Harry and the twins and awaited their reactions.
"Well," Fred said. "we're not too surprised."
"Yeah," George nodded. "Ron played quidditch with us all the time and he is nearly always keeper."
"Harry?" Alicia said. "What is your opinion?"
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