Gryffindor Tryouts #2

[Jasmine Taylor]

Grabbing a black rubber band Jas grabbed her hair and tied it back in a pony tail. Skipping the two feet to her bed she grabbed her broom and clipboard and headed out the door. She made sure to post an announcement about the try outs on the bulletin board in the gryffindor common room. Grabbing the list on her way out she made her way to the quidditch pitch. She gave it a quick look before attaching it to the clipboard. She speed walked the whole way has she did want to get there before the others.

Walking out on the grounds she squinted a little has it was a bit bright outside. Looking around she was trying to see if she had seen any of the team members around but so far no one was in sight. Walking onto the field Jas took a deep breath before putting her things down on the ground. Taking off at a slow jog she went to the shack and grabbed the chest. Once she dragged it out to where her broom laid she took a seat on it and waited for the others to arrive.



Captain: Jasmine Taylor

Chaser 1: Eustace Scrubb
Chaser 2: -open-
Chaser 3: -open-

Beater 1: Gia Lancaster
Beater 2: -open-

Keeper: Jasmine Taylor
Seeker: Ryan Owl

Subs: -open-

[ryanowl]

Ryan, once again, awoke on the roof of his dorm. It was rare for him to be in his bead at night, considering his back-nature. The day before, he and his team member, Jasmine, decided to put a tryouts , and he thought it was a good idea. Whit what he knew of her, she should already be setting up. It would be fun to put on some tryouts.

After Ryan grabbed some breakfast, he ran back up to his dorm and threw on his outfit, then put his kimono back on over it. Now, being all set, he jumped out of his window with his broom in his right hand. About three seconds before he hit the ground, he jumped on his broom, and flew to the pitch, she he spotted Jasmine. "Hia, what brings you here so early?" He was leaning over in a lounging position, his hand holding up his head and his elbow in the brooom handle.

[Jasmine Taylor]

With her back to the entrance Jas sat on the chest staring at the ground. She frowned has she imagined the practice being unsuccessful. Hopefully lots of peoples would show up. She would hate to see the team crumble to nothing and to top it she was a sixth year. Only one more year left! This made her frown even more, she didn't want to grow up.

Snapping out of it when she heard a voice, she smiled a little. Looking up in front of her she saw Ryan floating in mid air on his broom. "Hi Ryan. Just making that we have everything for the tryouts." she replied has she dusted off her jeans. "How have you been lately?" she asked looking to him. While waiting for a reply she got out the list that she pulled her clip board to her lap. Giving it a good look she hoped that the other team mates noticed that the tryouts were going on.

[paulkong]

Alex, broom slung over his shoulder, walked out onto the quidditch pitch. He had wondered when he'd have a chance to tryout ever since his first day at Hogwarts. Even though it was early in the morning for him to get up he was fully alert. He loved everything about Quidditch, playing it, watching it. He thought it was the best game in the world, even better than football, which he'd been around all of his life. He saw two people out in the middle of the pitch, with a chest that looked like it would have the Quidditch things in it. He started walking over to them. He hoped there were more senior players on the team than this.

He finally got to where they were standing, there was one girl there who looked to be in control of the situation. "Hi," He said, addressing both of them, then turning to the girl he said, "This the Gryffindor tryouts?" He laid his broom down on the ground and took a drink of pumpkin juice from the flask that had been hanging from his belt.

[selkie]

Sadie had been blissfully napping in the Gryffie Common Room over her potions book when a few loud first years decided to be obnoxious. They slammed the door to their dormitory room, then began to chatter so noisily that it was impossible to remain asleep. With a yawn and a lazy stretch the girl sat up, glancing around as she tried to remember where she was. Her potions book thumped to the floor as she stood and rubbed her eyes. What time was it? How long had she been out?

The second year glared at the firsties, who ignored her completely, then leaned down to pick up her fallen homework. As she straightened Sadie noticed a small poster among the many cluttered on the bulletin board in the common room...it had a picture of a broom on it. Quidditch try-outs were happening again. But when? Wait...was that...was that today?? The girl turned and sprinted up the staircase to her room. She tossed her things aside and hurriedly dressed in some more atheletic garb. As a last minute effort to appear a bit more civilized, the girl ran a brush through her short messy hair several times before taking off down the steps at break-neck speed.

At the portrait of the fat lady Sadie nearly slammed into a few of her fellow Gryffindors. She shouted a hasty apology without breaking stride. Navigating the moving staircases was slightly irritating in her rush, but she eventually managed to make her way to the first floor, then outside. Jogging her way across the front lawn she managed to make it in a surprisingly short amount of time. Placing a hand against the nearest wall, which happened to be the Ravenclaw stands, Sadie took a moment to catch her breath. It wouldn't do to appear winded before try-outs even began!

Sadie knew that the rosters for her house team were pretty much full, but she could certainly hope for a spot as a back-up member, or perhaps consideration for next term. Either way she crossed her fingers, wishing that she would at least make a good impression. Stepping out onto the field the girl walked as confidently as she could toward Jasmine Taylor. Sadie had never met the girl or been formally introduced, but she knew of her. This girl was not only the Quidditch Captain of Gryffindor's team, but a Prefect. This was everything that Sadie had dreamed of since arriving at Hogwarts. Sadie was completely in awe.

Rather than stand around and gape, she cleared her throat and smiled at the 6th year.

"Hi. My name is Sadie Radcliffe...I'm a Second year, and I was really hoping to try out for the team today."

[Jasmine Taylor]

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Jasmine grew a little antsy has she sat on the chest in the middle of the field. her head still down, she began to shake her leg in anticipation has her brown eyes scanned the paper. Her heart almost skipped a beat when she heard feet walking toward them. Using her peripheral vision she could see on e pair of feet coming towards them. Looking up she smiled has she tried her best not to show how nervous she was.

Speaking softly she answered his question. "Yeah, this is. Your just the first to arrive." Looking past him she noticed another walking up. Oh, goodie! She hoped that there would be lots and lots of people. Ok, well maybe not too much, she didn't want to make any hard decisions since there was only two team positions open at the moment.

"My name is Jasmine. What position would you guys like to tryout for?" she asked this has she looked down at her paper. Scanning the list she couldn't find the girl's name. She looked back up has she waited for the two to answer.

[selkie]

Sadie clasped her hands behind her back, rocking slightly on her heels. She too was excited and a bit nervous, though she was oblivious to the fact that the Captain was feeling any anxiety. Keeping her voice as calm as possible she nodded as Jasmine spoke, then responded,

"It's great to meet you, Jasmine. I saw that a chaser position was open and I would like to try out for that, if it's okay."

The second year bit her lip, hesitantly adding, "Oh, yeah... and... I don't currently own a broom. My parents told me if I made the team I could have my own, either my brother's current one or a new one. If I got Dan's then he'd get a new one, I'm sure of it... But don't worry, I've flown quite a bit at home so I'm decent!"

It was at about this time that the girl thought she might just be talking herself out of a position on the team by undermining her value. She quickly amended her statement. "...er... Actually, I'm pretty good!" Smooth, Sae, real smooth. "Anyway, I was really just wondering if I could borrow a school broom to try out with?"

Sadie went slightly pale as she realized she had been rambling. Swallowing the girl tried to smile though she seemed a touch embarrassed. It would be so silly of her to blow this chance just because she was nervous! She'd played Quidditch at home quite a few times with her brother, who was on a team at the wizarding school Durmstrang. He'd taught her the basics, and she had picked up a little of his flying prowess on her own. If only she could keep her wits about her, Sadie could surely do well at this try-out!

[kerajonson]

Broom in her hand, Kera quickly made her way toward the Quidditch pitch. It was finally her chance to try out for the Gryffindor team, and she was looking forward to it very much. As the second year girl walked she grabbed a red rubber band out of her pocket, and tied her long black hair into a ponytail. It would be careless for her to leave her hair down during the tryouts.

As she approached the pitch, she looked around to see how many people had shown up before her. Only 3 people besides the captain. Kera was looking forward to trying out a position as a beater, or maybe even backup. After all backup was always alright. She walked up to the group, and gave a small smile toward everyone in greeting. She then turned her attention to the Captain, and gave another small smile.

"Hello, I'm Kera Jonson. and I was planning on trying out for the open beater position." Kera said looking toward the 6th year.

[ayame]

Ayame walked down towards the Quidditch Pitch with her broom over her shoulder. As she drew nearer, she saw that a few people were already there. She walked towards the small crowd and smiled. "Hi, my name is Ayame. I'm a second year Gryffindor, and I'll take any spot you've got," Ayame's smile grew as she said this. She wasn't going to give away any hint of nervousness. Today she was all about confidence. She turned to survey the group. She recognised some of the people from her classes, others she had seen walking around in the halls or the grounds. She could even name a few of them. Well, this was going to be more interesting than Ayame had thought it would be. She could see that some of these people had talent and most were willing to fight for the positions. This would be interesting, very interesting indeed.

[scrubb]

((sorry, I've gone basic lately, didn't notice this... thanks for the reminder Jasmine.))

Scrubb hurried to the pitch, broom over shoulder. He'd seen the notice at the last minute, and ran down as fast as he could. He wasn't really sure what was going on... Tris was no longer captain, and Jasmine was. Not that he doubted her ability, but he wondered what was up.

Catching sight of Jasmine and Ryan, along with a few wannabe players, Scrubb walked over. He nodded politely to the candidates assembled, then stepped closer to his teammates.
"Hey, sorry I'm late," he said. "Good to see you two. And congratulations, Jas... But... Um... Where's Tris? What happened?"

[greggeender]

Gregg grabbed his broom and headed down to the quiditch pitch. He was planning on trying out, but was prepared for the worst. Gregg quickly walked up behind a girl who appeared to be the captain by the way she was standing in front of everyone. He tapped her on the back and introduced himself." Hey uh sorry if im late uh my names Gregg."

[Jasmine Taylor]

"Yeah, you can. There are some brooms in the little shack thing over there." she pointed just past the girl to where the brooms were. Jas wrote down her name and the position that she was trying out for. By the time she looked up others had arrived. She smiled has she was glad that the news had spread. She wrote down the others name has they introduced themselves. "There is only two positions open at this time. Chaser and Beater." she informed Ayame of this in case she really didn't want to be a beater or chaser. Though she would like to have a substitute for every position just in case she ever disappeared like Tris.

"Hey Scrubb! Uh, thanks." she smiled, she was very glad that he had showed up. She would hate to have to look for another chaser. "I have no idea what happened to him. Hope his alright though..." has he voice trailed off she looked to the ground. She really did hope that he was ok. Practice without him a little weird, now only Ryan was there to pick on her. Geesh the girl was only a little grumpy one morning and those two would never let her forget it.

Looking around at the small group she was happy with the turn out. Then she felt someone tapping her on the shoulder. "Hello. Your not late. We are kind of just getting started. What position would you like to try out for?" she asked. Once she was sure that she had everyones name and what they were here for she stood up. "Ok, everyone. Thanks for coming out today. I'm Jasmine but just call me Jas please. If everyone could just give me a couple of warm up laps..." she smiled at the group has they took off.

[kerajonson]

As Jasmine told the group to do a couple of laps around the field, Kera quickly mounted her broom and took off. It had been awhile since she had had time to fly, so she was a little off balance at first, but after a few minutes she quickly got back into it again. Kera smiled as she raced around the Pitch, with the wind blowing against her body.

[ayame]

Ayame took off as Jas told the group to do a couple of laps. She was so happy to be back on a broom! She was quickly soaring through the air and around the field. Ayame was so out of practice it almost wasn't funny. Almost. She quickly began to remember the feel of the broom, the way it should move. She was soon soaring through the air, as though she had been born on a broom, it felt as if the broom was a part of her again. As she got more and more comfortable, she stopped concentrating on how the broom should feel and started concentrating on how it did feel. The feel of the wind rushing through her hair, the way she would feel, as if she could go anywhere and do anything, the way the speed started her heart pounding.... She had missed this so much.

[paulkong]

Alex gripped his broom and kicked off of the ground. He hoped he was not our of practice, and thankfully it didn't take him long to realize that he wasn't. He also finally realized why he loved to fly so much. He always had but he never really had a reason. Now he knew though, it was a feeling that every care in the world was lifted away from you. You left all your problems on the ground.

He took a lap of zooming around the pitch just to get the feeling back. Then on his second lap he really turned it on. He didn't showoff or do barrel rolls or any sort of that nonsense. He weaved in and out of people, cutting around them with ease. Showing off his skills in terms of agility, instead of in simple tricks. Agility and knowing the limits won you games, not twirls and loop die loops. He had to cut left and then right around two girls and then did a spectacular dive at the last moment to avoid the goalpost.

He finally finished his second lap, he may have done a third he really didn't care. He set back down in the middle of the pitch close to the captain, Jasmine was her name, or he thought so at least. He waited for the next instructions, brimming with that confidence that only flying on a broom could bring him.

[greggeender]

Gregg smiled glad that he wasnt late. He just replied with a simple "beater" Hearing her say something about warm up laps he quickly jumped on his broom and sped ahead of the rest of the group.

[troyzoton]

Troy walked onto the Quidditch pitch and saw the rest of the Gryffindors doing laps around the pitch on their brooms so Troy decided to join them as he hopped onto his broom and went soaring after them to join the rest of the team.

Troy was their to try out for the position of 'chaser' and was hoping he would be able to work his way into the first team.

[at]

Ally walked out to the pitch ready for some action! She was hoping to try out for the open chaser position. She quickly made her way to the pitch broom in her hand. She tended to leave Hogwarts alot. She was on the North Carolina Voleyball Team. She was captian of that but she aswell loved wuidditch after being halfblood! She had her robes on and her broom in her right hand her silver veela hair was glistening in the wind. She sighed what a beautifull day!

[ryanowl]

Ryan had amaizing leadership qualities, and, at his old village, many people looked up to him, before that day, but he would not think of that today. He was here to lead the tryouts with Jas, and that was what he will do. He was quiet as he silient dropped to the ground, and slng his broom on his back, and, with crossed arms, nodded to the people here for tryouts. "Your not that bad at leading a team. lets hope they think so.

[selkie]

Sadie smiled and nodded when Jas indicated to the broom closet. The second year turned and hurried over to claim one for herself, careful to choose one that wasn't too worn looking. Once satisfied she returned to the field, glancing around at all the others.

Soon the Captain gave them directions, telling them to give her a few warm-up laps. Eager to obey Sadie carefully placed the school's broom upon the ground, stuck her hand out and commanded clearly, "Up." The broom shot into her hand, and Sadie was quick to mount it. Kicking smoothly off the ground she soared into the air, the wind whipping her short hair all around her face. She'd definitely have to buy some goggles.

Hoping to impress the Captain Sadie leaned forward on the broom, urging it faster and faster. While clearly not the best flyer in the bunch, she was quite capable with a broom and had obviously had some practice in her life time. It felt so good to be back up in the air, the wind in your face and the ground seeming to be miles below. With simple laps like these it felt like she didn't have a care in the world.

She zoomed once, twice, three times around the arena before pulling back on the handle and floating up above the stands near the end where Jas had been. The Gryffindor wondered what the next challenge might be.