CHAPTER 28

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This chapter is dedicated to issymac for her votes, comments and support. Love you.

"Do you think I can borrow a school broom for the tryouts?" Ginny asked. The Quiddich Tryouts were going to take place in the morning and she hadn't got a decent broom.

    "Yes. You can. Maybe we can buy you a decent broom if you are a good player." Said James. The captain badge was adorning his robes. He used to play Chaser until last year but this time, he wasn't sure. Ginny ofcourse, had put up her name as a Chaser. She was currently carrying a Star Sweeper 103 for the tryouts.

    Reaching the field, James announced, " okay, all the Chasers this side, Beaters that side and Keepers to the corner. The first will be Seeker Tryouts."

    A group of four expectant candidates came forward. According to Ginny, none of them were satisfactory. One of them managed to fall off the broom two minutes into fight, another one crashed into the goal hoops. The others two remained air borne, but none of them managed to get sight of the snitch, let alone catch it. Thus, after a disastrous Seeker tryout, James concluded that he better be the Seeker himself.

    Next was the Beater tryout, where Sirius skillfully claimed his position, along with a fifth year boy Sam Jenkins.

    A fourth year boy Zach McMillan, became the Keeper. Last was the Chaser Tryout.

    Ginny took a deep breath. It's alright. She has always claimed her position as the one in top form. She was a Chaser in her own time, why would this be any different? She moved her eyes along the stands. There were groups of Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws, Slytherins who had come to see the tryouts. Some of them (mostly Slytherins) were jeering, the Ravenclaw girls were giggling at the slightest reason. Suddenly her eyes locked with a certain Slytherin. He was not jeering, on the contrary, he put up his thumb towards her, as if to wish her luck. Ginny smiled very slightly. Regulus was wishing her luck.

     "All the Chasers take your positions - one, two, three!" James yelled as he released the Quaffle.

    Suddenly, Ginny's mind was solely concentrated on the big red ball. She saw it being thrown up in slow motion. It is rising, rising.... then it started to fall. Taking her cue, Ginny sped along the Star Sweeper towards the Quaffle. She clutched it away from another girl's outstretched hand and soon, she found herself speeding towards the goal posts, the Quaffle grabbed in her arm, followed by five other enraged chasers. The Keeper Zach was hovering over the three hoops, left to right, right to left. Taking a perfect aim, Ginny hurled the Quaffle towards the hoops. It went directly through the left hoop, just the very place Zach had been a second ago. Ginny patted herself on the back for her amazing timing.

    After ten minutes of Chaser tryouts, the Gryffindor team had found three chasers- Ginny Summers, who had out flown all competitions by scoring eight goals in a row; Ted Tonks, who had consistently been playing chaser last three years, and Mary McDonald, a sixth year girl who was good at passing Quaffle around and dodging budgers.

    "Good job guys, back to the common room!" James called out. They all made their way towards the common room after changing. The Marauders, including Peter had gone forward, because Ginny told them to. By the time she headed towards common room, the corridors were much less crowded. Suddenly, at a particularly quiet place, someone grabbed hold of Ginny's elbow and yanked her into a broom closet. She opened her mouth to scream, but a hand covered her mouth as a voice spoke in an urgent whisper, "Ginny! It's me!"

    Ginny instantly relaxed and the person removed his hand. "You scared me!" Ginny stated crossly. Even if he was her friend, she always got annoyed when someone startled her. She took out her wand and muttered, "Lumos".

     Instantly, her brown eyes locked with dark grey eyes, which looked a bit reproachful at her tone.

    "I am sorry." Said Regulus. "It's just that I couldn't have talkes to you like a gentleman calmly in the corridors in case my housemates saw me. Trust me, you would've been in more trouble than me."

    "It's alright." Said Ginny. "What do you want to talk about?"

    Regulus thought for a second. "You were amazing today Ginny." He said. "You never told me you played chaser."

    "You never asked." Ginny said smiling. Regulus grinned back.

    "I actually quite like such broom closets. Peaceful enough have nice long conversations." He said. A comfortable silence fell betwwen them. Brown eyes met dark grey ones.

    Ginny cleared her throat. Regulus looked as if he broke away from a trance. "I should leave." He said. Without any further goodbye, he suddenly opened the door and left. Ginny kept standing, confused by his sudden departure. What was that all about?

   

Guys, I am super excited for chapter 29. Because, well, it is different from what I have written so far. So guys, bear with me on that one.......

On the last few chapters, I haven't been able to dedicate properly because I didn't get my PC. Those will be done soon. Hope you are happy with the Quidditch positions. Now I need to study, so bye! Keep reading! Vote and Comment!

P.s.- Do any of you know what the hell is magnetic moment? It is in my question paper! ;)

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