Gryffindor Quidditch Practice

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

Adam stood out on the Quidditch Pitch with his broom in hand waiting for the rest of his teammates to show up. But after a few minutes, he got impatient and hopped on his broom for a quick fly around the stands.

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[bestkogalever.livejournal.com]

Ran was on the ground, running onto the Quidditch field, hopping onto her broom in mid-run. "Crap, crap, crap crap crap!" She exclaimed, as she lifted off, gliding into the air rather quickly.

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

Adam watched the girl run out and head towards him. Still slightly paranoid, he swerved to the right to maintain a steady distance before calling out, "Ran? What's wrong?"

[bestkogalever.livejournal.com]

"I've got a very good excuse for being late, really!" She said, as she flew up. Ran didn't notice Adam flying away from her, or at least didn't say anything about it, "... And there's only two people here, aren't there?"

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

"You're not late. We're still waitin' for everyone else to show up, too." He looked around and saw Archie. "Well, three now. And I invited some of the Weasleys to come and help us since they've played Quidditch before. Fred and George used to be Beaters like you. What would you like to do first? Flyin' practice or do you want to see your ball and bat?"

[tennanator.livejournal.com]

"Oy!" Tenna zoomed to a halt right by Ran, waving her own beater bat. "Hey! I'm Tenna. I'm the other beater." She offered a big smile.

[bestkogalever.livejournal.com]

She waved right back, with her free hand, "Hey! I think I remember you... The girl who wanted to be a beater as well, right? I'm Ran!" Ran said, deciding to leave off the entire "best damn kogal in all of Shibuya" part, if only to get her re-oriented on the broom.

"You're used to lifting this thing already?" She asked.

[tennanator.livejournal.com]

"Kind of." Tenna tapped her fingers on the broom and grinned. "I guess video games help a little? Dunno." She tilted her head. "Why, not gettin' the hang of things yet?"

[4th-lt-crumpet.livejournal.com]

Archie jogged up, broom in hand and not feeling quite as sanguine about the whole business as he was before. I do hope I have better luck with this than Horatio did with his horse, he thought, before hopping on his broom and pushing off. To his pleasant surprise, the broom neither crashed nor dumped him off.

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

As far as Adam could tell, Archie seemed to have picked up flying rather quickly.

"Good job!" he called out. "Is this the first time you've flown?"

[4th-lt-crumpet.livejournal.com]

"First real time, but I have been practicing Not Falling Off As Soon As I Get On a little in my free moments."

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

"Well you're doin' great! Just fly around in circles for a bit until you feel more comfortable with it, okay?"

[bestkogalever.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" She shouted to Archie, "You're with the team? Which part are you, one of the chasers?"

[4th-lt-crumpet.livejournal.com]

"Yes! And you are...?"

[impulsive1.livejournal.com]

Impulse showed up on the field with a broom he grabbed from a janitorial closet somewhere. Seeing his teammates in the air, he tried to get the thing started. "UP!" He said with a dramatic gesture as the broom clattered on the floor. Maybe I should borrow a Legion flight ring.

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

Adam saw Impulse's attempt to mount his broom and frowned. Suddenly the broom found itself hovering about a foot off the ground.

"Try it again," he called. "But we might hafta get you some better equipment."

[impulsive1.livejournal.com]

"Cool!"

Impulse quickly jumped on the broom, taking a few seconds to figure out where exactly the controller was. Trial and error are always the best way to figure these things out.

(Repost, sorry about that)

[son-of-steven.livejournal.com]

Roland sauntered slowly onto the pitch, mounting his broom rather forcibly. He'd taken the time to clean up one of the school brooms, actually taking it apart twig by twig, and reassembling it again. He'd also brushed up on some broom-making procedures, and had managed to cast a rather complicated hex that hadn't been in wide use during the production of his particular broom, adding a good twenty-five MPH to its top speed, on top of the optimizations he'd already preformed.
Nevertheless, as he glided upward, there was no apparent sense of pride or even awareness of the broom's changes. Such things were a matter of course to the weathered man - you take care of your equipment to the best of your ability.

As he climbed upwards, he waved succinctly at Adam. "Hile, sai Young... I take it the Malfoy child had no interest in the Seeker position?"

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

"Hile Roland! No, Draco never answered me about it." He looked a little worried. "I actually haven't seen him for a while... Still, I know you'll do an amazin' job. Do you want to practice flyin' around a bit more or do you want to work with the Snitch?"

[son-of-steven.livejournal.com]

"If it strikes thee as appropriate, Adam, I'd like to practice with the Sneech, say thankya."

[lp-drumline7.livejournal.com]

((ooc: The internet ... picks the worst times to go down. I.E. sneakily while I'm watching House....))


Devi ran out onto the field, a school broom clutched tightly in her hand as she nearly fell over herself. "Sorry I'm late!" she shouted up to the sky when she reached the rest of the group, quickly kicking off to reach their height. "I completely forgot about this," she sighed, running her fingers through her hair.

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Devi!" yelled Adam with a wave. "It's okay. You're pretty good at flyin' already, so do you wanna go help Archie and Bart? Just let me know when you're ready to start practisin' with the Quaffle."

[lp-drumline7.livejournal.com]

Devi timidly waved back to him and offered a smile, flexing her fingers as she scanned the pitch. "I'm ready to start now, really, but if they need help with flying or whatever, I'm willing to do that too."

[tennanator.livejournal.com]

Tenna stalked out, her eyes nearly closed as she dragged her feet and rubbed at her face. *Devi, you said you would remind meee* she cursed inwardly, jumping onto her broom and hovering a few feet off the ground and she tried to wipe the sleep from her eyes.

[average-adam.livejournal.com]

Adam watched Tenna stagger onto the field. He gave her a few minutes to wake up before flying over and handing her a beater's bat.

"You're pretty good at flyin' already, right? You wanna try usin' this? Ran seems to be gettin' the hang of it..."

[tennanator.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm okay for now," she mumbled with a slight smile, taking the bat and eying it as she observed the field. "So who's Ran? We got some beatin' the crap out of stuff to do."