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The next week, October colours shone through the Hogwarts castle's ground, reds—the hue reminded Janna of Rose's angry face—and fiery oranges—that also reminded Janna of Rose's ginger hair. Above in the Gryffindor boy's dorms Janna had snuck up there again so James and Orion could help Janna figure out the rules and positions to Quidditch in a far more detailed talk while they helped her change into the school's Quidditch uniform, Jake and Juno were already by the pitch wanting to earn the better seats.

    "That's actually simple... All I need to do if I become Seeker is to catch the Snitch ball and the game is  won and over?" Janna questioned as Orion tied her knee pads.

   "Yeah, but you need to be sure that your team has enough points to out win the other," James explained, holding a manual to his speckled nose, Quidditch through the Ages. "You need to try some moves to impress Laura if you want to be Seeker, like this some from this one" James shoved the book into Janna's face, pointing at a Seeker Moves and Tricks.

Janna read through the tricks, catching the snitch in the robe sleeve, diving down as though chasing a snitch, flying backwards to the snitch to confuse the other seeker... Going one direction, suddenly moving towards the snitch... "Misdirection..? Why don't I just go for the ball straight away?"

James shrugged "so the Beaters, like myself, can try and attack the other team with the Bludgers—but if you do go for the ball straight away then you will have a tough time catching the snitch, it likes to zoom around like mad"

    "Which position does Laura have?" Orion asked, moving a pad to Janna's elbow.

   "She's a chaser, Laura has actually been scouted by the Harpies, the Bodmin Banshees and a few other teams, first time was in her fifth year. Mum used to be in the Harpies, I think Laura should pick that team" James dreamed, Janna turned the pages a few times to see what else she could learn.

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The pitch was mottled with scarlet robes which blew in the cold wind, James had told Janna and Orion to act maturely, since Laura took no nonsense from anyone. Laura was a tall well built tomboy who had her coppery ashen hair up in two long braids over her ears, her ice blue eyes narrowed at the boys fooling around, hitting each other with brooms and the girls who chatted loudly in small clustered groups, much like babblers but just louder and larger in size.

Laura cleared her throat, James and a few other Gryffindors looked at her, along with Orion and Janna, the captain put her hand up, instructing the ones who were looking at her to wait.

   "Alright!" Laura's strong voice silenced the babblers "all of those who did not look at me when I had asked for your attention, get off my pitch!" Laura yelled, her cheeks turning red, some of the students revolted but Laura chased them off the field with an angry threat. When all the babblers left Laura turned on her heel and examined her small group of successors "I see have a few firsties," Laura smiled strangely, putting the brooms from under her arm onto the grass, looking at Rose, Janna and Orion "each one of you take a broomstick, follow the group around the pitch" Laura said, mounting her broom, the older students followed.

The three first years leaned to the brooms "Argh, nothing but Nimbus 2000's" groaned Rose "Soaring Corona 40's or the Silver Arrows would be better"

    "I though people stopped making Silver Arrows long ago" Orion said, picking out two brooms, he took one with messy twigs at its tail and a curved body, he gave Janna a cedar wood broom which had more thin grey stick which twisted around each other like climbing rose vines. Rose groaned in frustration.

   "I wanted that Spitfire" Rose muttered, picking through the broomsticks, Orion snickered at her as he and Janna mounted their brooms.

   "Maybe Rose should have been a little quicker" Janna murmured to Orion, he smirked and ruffled Janna's hair back.

   "Yeah, she might not be able to keep up with us though" Orion then lifted he volume of his voice "Rose'll never catch us on those ancient Nimbus'"

   "Bugger off, you tosser!" Rose yelled angrily, Janna lifted off, trying to ignore Rose, who was rather rude to Orion. Orion followed Janna to the rest of the group, where Laura was hovering in the middle of the circle of players, they were stretching on their brooms.

   "Missed me, Black?" James asked as he leaned to the side, moving to the side and making room for Janna and Orion.

   "James, I haven't thrown anything at you yet, so how can I miss?" Janna smirked, Orion chuckled while James laughed in his throat, trying not to catch Laura's iron clad glare, the captain was staring at Rose floating slowly up the air, trying to force the broomstick to move faster.

Olive and Aimee, who had finally reconciled with Rose, cheered from the stands. This made Laura then glare at Rose with an unblinking state "I don't want this tardiness ever again, Granger-Weasley" Rose flushed, crestfallen; glaring at Janna and Orion who followed Laura'a exercise.

After the exercising Laura went to the stand she got a box and sat it in her lap, "Now, Seekers, please come forward" Janna, two fifth years, a third year and a seventh year floated forward, Janna realised she had most probably made a mistake "You will need to catch these" Laura held up a handful of golden balls, she tapped them with her wand and then began to hover on her hand "the ones with the most caught will pass my test, the rest of you can then go cry in your dorms or something" Laura then threw the balls into the air, they all floated above the ground, she swished her wand and the balls came to life, all of them zoomed to life, zipping through the pitch, one tried to get out of the pitch by flying past the stand but it flew into an invisible barrier.

   "Go on" Laura urged them, Janna leaned down first to catch the balls, heeding Laura's yell. Janna wished she had read the whole chapter on Seekers in that Quidditch through the Ages so she knew she had to improvise. Janna felt strange on the broomstick, as though she had done this before... Maybe it was from her parents. A shimmer of gold caught Janna's eyes, she saw the painted ball, her body wanted to jolt towards the ball to catch it but she remembered the tricks, the going backwards one came to mind so she did a long turn around, she leaned backwards but instead she was going backwards but shooting up into the stands.

During her mistake Janna leaned forward again, realising she would have to pull the broomstick with her if she wanted catch the balls. The one she had her eyes on was already caught. But when her luck turned Janna suddenly dove down, two of the other Seekers followed, she felt the cooling autumn air brushing into her hair, running through hair as she got dangerously close to the ground with the two others on her tail.