Try-outs : Hufflepuff

[amandalarsen]

Last try-outs was a total blow-off. This wasn't how Amanda planned it. She wanted the try-outs to be successful so that they could have a full team to practice with. However, there was some potential there that Amanda could really see on the team like Jodi Peterson. Perhaps she'd give her friend the position since she had been to try-outs for the past two times.

Amanda, dressed casually in black sweats and a long sleeve Hufflepuff shirt, walked out to the pitch with a clipboard that included the remaining positions on the team that were open. From last try-outs, she could determine who wanted to be there more than others, and that was only one person. So hopefully today, that would change.

Her yellow chucks padded lightly over the grass, stopping toward the sidelines where there was a bench she could sit at. Laying the roster aside, she went to the shack to retrieve the trunk full of the quidditch balls and laid them next to the bench, while her broom hovered behind her. Things were set and Amanda was hoping that with it being the weekend, people would come to the try-outs. Hopefully Holden came out good with those flyers. ;]

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Hufflepuff Team Roster

Keeper: Mark Lobo
Seeker: Holden Caulfield
Chaser 1: Amanda Larsen
Chaser 2: Jodi Peterson
Chaser 3:
Beater 1: Timothy Levesque
Beater 2:
Alternate 1:
Altnerate 2:

[Holden J. Caulfield]

After sending flyers everywhere [coming soon to all Hufflepuffs =]] Holden ran out to the Quidditch Field. He had made shirts. Shirts only for the already Quidditch team. Jodi, Mark, Amanda, Timothy, and of course himself. That's so everyone already knew what they had and what to try out for. The positions of the almost already team had their positions on the back of the shirt in black. The yellow shirts had a badger on the front.

He tackled Amanda as soon as he caught up to her. It was a Seeker - Captain greeting. You wouldn't understand if you weren't Amanda, Katy, or James. Pfft. Other people weren't worthy enough to have the Seeker- Captain Greeting.

"I made you a shirt. Wanna see? I made ones for me, you, Jodi, Tim, and Mark. The people that are already on the team. I'll make more once we get a full team. All the other houses shall be so jealous." Holden got off of Amanda and helped her up.

The Seeker put his mailbag on the ground and searched for her shirt. "Got it. He handed her her shirt. "Flyers and owls sent to everyone Captain. Reporting for duty Ma'am," he saluted. Holden didn't bother to bring his broom. He was already on the team. Woot woot.

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[amandalarsen]

Amanda should've expected it to happen when she saw Holden come to the pitch, but again, she was distracted like usual. Random girl and her random thoughts as she doodled toward the side of the roster. With her back meeting the ground and a loud 'ack!' leaving her lips, she looked up at Holden and laughed. "You silly git." She grinned.

"Of course I would like to see. That's so fantastic that you've made us shirts!" She beamed as he helped her off the ground. Dusting off bits of grass and dirt from her shirt, she looked at him rummage around in a bag for something. Out appeared a bright canary yellow shirt with her position on the back of it and the badger on the front. "Oh these look awesome Holden!"

Amanda took no time to slip on the shirt over her long sleeve one and smooth out the wrinkles. "Perfect." Patting Holden on the shoulder, she took her seat back on the bench, looking around before her eyes finally laid rest on Holden. "At ease Huffy Seeker and good job. Hopefully now we'll have a fully fledged try-out."

[robhudson]

Rob walked to the front of the quidditch field and looked at the front of the stadium before he entered the field. As he walked out onto the field he saw the team captian and the seeker standing there so he walked over to them carring his broom, a nimbus 2001, and said"Hey I got the flyer for the try-outs and I thought that I would try out for beater seeing as how you've only got one beater. Oh my name is rob hudson and I'm a 5th year."

[Holden J. Caulfield]

Holden laughed at Amanda. She was totally suprised by his tackling skills. Reason to be jealous of the Seeker a.k.a Special Advisor. He chuckled. "I thought it was a cool looking design. I thought about putting our specific positons. Like bludgers and bats on the Beaters. Quaffle for the Chasers. Snitch for me. Three goals for Mark. But I didn't think about it till afterwards.

Rob Hudson was going to be Holden's hero. <3 He came! Amazing. Someone had found Holden's flyers! Amazing. Holden did a fist in the air jump. "Someone found one. My hero," he teased. As Seeker he had to be very energetic. Holden took the part to heart. He jumped around. "We're going to have a full team in no time Amanda!"

Holden looked over to this Hudson person. Fifth year! Omfg amazing. "Holden Caulfield, Seeker slash Special Advsior, fifth year also." A team was forming and he could feel it. YAYA!

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[amandalarsen]

Aw! His idea of adding more graphics to their shirts for their specific positions sounded awesome. "Darn, maybe we can do something about it later. Add a bit of magic touch." She winked. Nothing too snazzy, but it would at least be less difficult to add with magic than having to reprint shirts again. Her eyes looked to the approaching Hufflepuff and finally someone had come!

Holden's idea was definitely effective. Soon enough, the pitch would be full of Hufflepuffs, eligible for try-outs. Marking down his name along with the position he was trying out for, she looked to both boys and smiled. "This is fan-frickin'-tastic!" A full team in no time. Perhaps all they needed were just a few more to arrive and she could start their try-outs.

Standing up from the bench, she stepped forward beside Holden. "Yes, well I'm Amanda Larsen, Captain and Chaser of this team, fifth year too." Why hadn't she known of this Rob dude? She never saw him in classes, that must've been it. Amanda was always surprised to find out new people in her own year. Pity really since it looks like she's been a basketcase, stuck within her own box.

Gosh! No wonder she doesn't know a lot of the fifth years, not even those in her own HOUSE! =O Seeing as he had a broom, she might as well have him do something so that he wouldn't get bored during the wait. "Rob, if you can, just fly around the pitch twice. Vary in different speeds and tricks if you want and then return here. It's just a warm up." Yeah, a warm up where she can examine his flying skills. =)

[robhudson]

Rob looked at amanda and when she told him to do a warm up he said"Okay, I can do that."He got on his broom and kicked off from the ground and felt the wind rush through his hair. He started to fly around the pitch going a little slow and then he put on a burst of speed and did a couple of tricks and then he slowed down before he flew up towards the sun and then he dived and then he came out of the dive and then he flew around the pitch once more and then he landed next to amanda and said"How was that?"

[josie]

Josie wandered slowly on to the quidditch pitch wondering what was awaiting her.

She'd found one of the Try out flyer's on her bed when she'd woken up that morning and had been throwing the idea around since, she was an able flyer and loved Quidditch but she was also nervous about proving herself.

Dressed in jeans and a long sleeved black top, with a yellow vest on top she stood on the field and watched as someone flew around the stands and stadium.

She fiddled with strands of her long black hair with one hand and held her broom firmly in the other, as she walked over to where it seemed they were meeting. There were only three people on the field and she had never met any of them.

The urge to turn around and walk away was overwhelming but Josie never walked away from a challenge and the opportunity to play on her house Quidditch team was to good to turn down.

She came to a halt in front of her fellow Hufflepuffs and smiled, "Hey, I'm Josie, I'd like to try out for Chaser."

[amandalarsen]

Amanda smiled as Rob got on his broom to fly the two rounds within the pitch. She watched him fly skillfully, varying his speeds, and throwing in a trick with a high and low dive. Recording her thoughts, she could see potential in Rob on the team, but she could not determine that yet until she has watched every person try-out.

But it was only the beginning for Rob since he wants to try out for beater. Once everyone shows up and has had a round around the pitch, she'd really begin their try-outs with different positions. Another girl had approached herself and Holden, shy, and yet confident in herself to try-out. "Hello Josie." She smiled, jotting down the girl's name and position she was trying out for.

"I'm Amanda Larsen and this here is Holden Caulfield, Seeker for our team. I see that you've got a broom and are prepared. So first I would like for you to fly around the pitch a couple times. Vary in speeds and tricks if you like. Then return back."

[Holden J. Caulfield]

More people were coming. Yaya! Holden jumped up in glee. He knew his flyers were good for something. Now they would definatly have a team. Then they could like...scrimmage against Mihael and woop Mihael's butt! Duh!

He sat on the bench next to Amanda. "So how do they look Captain, oh Captain?" Holden watched Rob fly around the field. The Seeker, himself, needed to practice standing on his broom. The fifth year had yet to master the difficult task. Holden put his head on Amanda's head. "Tell me when I begin to annoy you and I'll "S-T-F-U"," he said. The Hufflepuff yawned.

"Who do you think will win the Quidditch World Cup?," he asked her randomly as another Hufflepuff younger than them came up to Amanda and asked to try out for the Chaser position. The girl called herself Josie. Holden looked to Amanda.

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[josie]

Josie smiled at the task she was given, thanking who ever was listening to her inner thoughts that it was something fairly easy to begin with.

She was holding her broom handle so tightly to stop her hands shaking that she thought she might snap it if she didn't do something to relieve the tension she was feeling.

She mounted her broom, and smiled to Amanda before kicking off from the ground.

The familiar rush of air sent shivers down Josie's spine, it felt good to be on her broom.

The sharp wind dispelled the nerves she was experiencing and she had to keep from letting out a yelp of pleasure flying gave her.

She pulled her broom to a level hover and looked down at the ground below. Everything was so tiny and far away, it was like she was cut off from everything.

She urged her broom in to a slow rotation of the field dipping slightly and gaining height getting a feel for the lay out of the pitch.

She looped round the goal posts and shot through the central one at tremendous speed, Josie loved to go fast.

Picking up speed she dived down to wards the grassy field and just before her head should have hit pitch she pulled out and shot skyward again, turning a couple of loops in mid air, something her brothers practically forbade her when she was at home, she brought her broom back to earth.

She landed slightly off balance, her cheeks flushed and her hair windswept, eagerly awaiting whatever came next.

[amandalarsen]

The girl flew off as soon as Amanda had given her task. She was a bit younger than herself, but Amanda was a first year too when she got on the team. So she had to give everyone a fair chance. "They're looking pretty good actually." She commented, keeping her eyes on the girl as she flew higher in the sky and around the pitch.

She dove sharply toward the ground, a common trick with the chasers, but only few can master. And as the girl has lifted up before brushing against the ground, Amanda smiled, adding some notes next to the girl's name. "She's really good." Knocking her head gently against Holden's, she giggled. "Nah, you're not annoying me. You'd have to do more than that Puffy Seeker."

After looping around in the air, the girl returned to the ground. For a moment, she looked to Holden, and enjoyed his randomness. Just like her, she could get along with Holden very well. "I'm hoping the Chudley Cannons, but who knows." Her shoulders shrug as she finished the last of her notes on the girl. "Thanks Josie. Just take a seat and we'll soon begin the next part of try-outs."

Her sapphire eyes look around the pitch for any other newcomers. She'd really like to see more flying skills, but if these were the only two showing up, she'd have to start them on their trials now. Amanda didn't want to because she hoped that more would come, giving at least everyone a fair chance of trying out. "Hm, what do you suggest we do until more arrive? A little game of tag in the air or should we just start with the bludgers and bats?" She asked Holden.

[Holden J. Caulfield]

Holden chuckled then said and 'ew'. "The Chudley Cannons? Are you sick? You must be!" Holden laughed and felt her forehead. "Sick totally," he teased. "The Conadian team is so going to beat the Cannon's arse." He was just teasing. Both were good teams.

"Oh so I go from Holden to Caulfield to 'That Seeker Kid there' to Holdiekins to Special Advisor now I'm called Puffy Seeker. Where do you people come up with names like these?," he teased again. Puffy. Reminded him of a pelican for some odd reason.

Holden's gray eyes looked to Amanda. "You're captain. Do what you think is right. I would perfer Air Tag but that's just me." He let his bangs fall in his face. "THOSE UP FOR AIR TAG SAY AYE!" Now these kids were pirates. Mwhaha.

"THOSE FOR BLUDGERS AND BEATERS SAY NEH!" Holden looked to Amanda. "There you have it Captain." He looked up at the sky. It wasn't going to rain. Fat chance. The sky was just...perfect.

"I'm tempted to call you Taco or Enchilada," he said to Josie. It reminded her of Josie in Spanish. Ho-zeh! Taco! =] Holden was terrible. But someone had to be the comedian of the group.

"I call not being it." "We can do this till some kid comes around and goes 'Is this the Hufflepuff Try-Outs?' and I can go 'No. That's on the other side of field. Welcome to the Hufflepuff Try-Outs.'

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[josie]

Josie smiled as she was told to take a seat, the sun was shining and the day was shaping up to be pretty good. She sat down on the grass, back against the first row of stadium seats.

She set her broom down beside her and fiddled with the grass of the immaculate playing field.

She looked around the empty pitch, surely they weren't the only two Hufflepuffs wanting to be on the team.

She was lost in thoughts of Quidditch games and practices that she didn't realize straight away a question had been asked, something about tag? She was up for anything that involved her getting back on her broom.

She laughed as Holden told her what he was tempted to call her, "Well thats certainly a nickname I've never heard before," She replied smiling at his originality.

[amandalarsen]

Amanda looked at Holden, frowing, and brushing his hand away from her forehead. "Oi, come off it." She snickered, glancing back at the two Hufflepuffs present, and then back to Holden. "I am not sick, just a bit loony if you must know." Sticking out her tongue, her lips then curl into a wide smile. Chudley Cannons was her team, but quidditch outside of school didn't matter much to Amanda at this time.

"If you don't like it Holden, I can come up with something much better." Sapphire eyes avert away with a smirk across her face. She had Spiderman for Tristam only because she caught him in her own man-made web in the hall. But for Holden, she'd make it special, just to tie in with his position and personality. Perhaps Seeker Puffikins Extreme. xP

Debating what the team should do, she would really like for the members to have fun. They were missing a few members like Jodi, Timothy, and Mark. They also needed a few more people to join the team too. But for now, it was just the four of them. Would air tag loosen up everyone? Make the newcomers feel comfortable around herself and Holden?

She blinked several times with her mouth partly parted. "Taco or Enchilada?" She chuckled. "Whatever made you think of that?" What a nutter. Maybe their shirts should also contain nick-names for each other. That'd be fun to figure out once the team is full. "Hm, well then, we can play air tag. Those who arrive late are just missing out on the fun. And I call being it." She looked to Holden with a dangerous smile upon her face.

[josie]

Josie smiled at the way the conversation flowed between Amanda and Holden, clearly they had been friends for a long time, it made Josie feel comfortable and more at ease. Being new she couldn't see past the end of the week let alone being in her 5th year with a stream of best friends.

The school was still puzzling her and she was still finding her feet.

She grinned as air tag was agreed upon, any excuse to go fast was ok in her book. She'd never played before but she figured it was just regular tag in the air.

Her eyes widened at she laughed out loud at the look Amanda gave Holden when she called "It", it was a look of promise and Josie could only imagine what it meant to Holden.

If this was what the whole team was like, she knew she was in for a treat.

[robhudson]

Rob had stood there watching Josie do a couple of warm up laps and knew that if she made the team she would be a great player. He then stood there listening to the conversation and when Amanda said that she called it he laughed at the look that she gave Holden and then he mounted his broom and took off into the air and waited for the rest of them to get on their brooms and come and join him in the air and then he noticed that none of them where getting on their brooms he called down to them and said"Whats taking you guys so long?"

[Holden J. Caulfield]

Holden chuckled softly at Amanda. They had never talked much before this year. She was different from everyone else; more like him. Less stressed and more laid-back.

He shook his head. "Her name. Josie. And you can say Ho-zeh for Spanish. And it reminds me of a taco. But I hate tacos but I do love enchiladias." Holden looked to the first year. "I'm not crazy. This is normal," he smiled.

Holden ran his hand through his hair. He got his broom and got on it and shot up. "LAST ONE IS A ROTTEN PUFFINKIN!" Holden turned around. "Boy, they are slow aren't they?," he said looking to Rob Hudson. "Well that's because they're girls." "Gosh."

He crossed his arms and looked at Amanda. "This was your idea Captain, Oh Captain. Holden put his hands around the broom and whistled. "I'm totally not it."

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[amandalarsen]

Looks like everyone was in a hype. Rob in the air and then Holden. It was just her and Josie on the grassy floor, which she set her roster aside, and hopped onto her broom. "I'll show you the meaning of slow." She grumbled as she kicked hard off the ground and shot straight up in the air. Higher and higher she flew, above both Rob and Holden, until she came to a sudden stop.

Amanda whipped around, looking at both boys, her lips curling upwards in a grin. "Ready or not, here I come." She whispered to herself, shooting toward Rob first and then circling around Holden. The opportunity was there to tag either boys, hell Josie was still on the ground, but she was waiting for the perfect moment to whack someone with her broom.

The great part about the game is that this would help the members practice darting targets and speeding toward each other. Ah yes, hitting a bird with two stones, though they'll never know it.

[josie]

Josie laughed, an interesting definition of normal to be sure. She didn't mind, she much preferred randomness and silliness to stiff upper lip seriousness.

The causal joking and the ease at which they included everyone made her feel like she'd known them longer than a mere 20 minutes. A talent that no doubt helped the team when playing.

She grinned as the Hufflepuff who had arrived before her sped in to the air, he had a natural agility and flew well. She smiled at his eagerness to begin, if there was one thing she understood it was enthusiasm for flying.

She jumped to her feet at Holden's challenge and grabbed her broom, turning to Amanda she laughed, "Rotten Puffinkin! Now theres a title I don't want to start the school year with."

Amanda showed she was clearly the experienced flyer as she raced up to meet the boys no sooner had the words left Josie's lips.

Groaning she tossed her long dark hair over her shoulder and mounted her broom kicking off to join the others.

Amanda had wasted no time and was already speeding after the boys.