Watching the tryouts
Sep. 21st, 2012 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_nevilleWent to watch the Gryffindor team tryouts last night. Windy night, which made the conditions a bit challenging. (Gryffindors, I'm sure you're all RELIEVED AS CAN BE that I didn't try for the team. Other Houses, try to contain your disappointment. Of course, Angelina Johnson would never have been mad enough to put me on the roster.)
There were a bunch of people trying, for Chaster and for Keeper: Vicki Frobisher, Geoffrey Hooper, .McLaggen And a couple of my roommates did! Ron and Seamus, good luck! (Ron, I had NO IDEA you were going to try!) Angelina seemed to be thinking about reevaluating all the positions: she had several people try for Seeker and Beater, too. Although of course Fred and George Weasley clobbered all comers trying for Beater.
Wonder when the team roster will be posted. Maybe tonight?
There were a bunch of people trying, for Chaster and for Keeper: Vicki Frobisher, Geoffrey Hooper, .
Wonder when the team roster will be posted. Maybe tonight?
Private message to Ron Weasley
Date: 2012-09-22 01:58 pm (UTC)And hitting your head on the goal postOf course you were nervous; it's expected. But that last save you did, when you stopped Katie Bell's throw, by flipping your broom over? Dead amazing!Re: Private message to Ron Weasley
Date: 2012-09-22 02:07 pm (UTC)Too bad that was the last one, though. Don't reckon I'll make the side.
I mean, even Frobisher probably looked better than me.
No idea what happened with McLaggen. He started off really well, and I figured I was out for sure. But, yeah. No idea.
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Date: 2012-09-22 02:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-22 02:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-22 02:23 pm (UTC)Oh, say. We probably can't play today. I'm out with the team, and we're meant to watch the other tryouts together.
If you come out, bring an umbrella. It looks like it's going to let loose any minute.
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Date: 2012-09-22 02:34 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 05:51 pm (UTC)You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?
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Date: 2012-09-22 05:53 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 05:54 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 05:59 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 06:02 pm (UTC)But the thing is, he did deserve it. And neither of us want him to make the team so he can strut around and have people admiring him.
Especially firstie girls.Is it wrong that I sort of wish I had done it myself?
Dad would probably have set his broom on fire.
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 06:07 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 06:06 pm (UTC)I wanted to take something away from him. Something that he thought was important and special. So he'd know what it was like.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 06:13 pm (UTC)He's leaving you alone, isn't he? Because I don't want you hiding it from me if he isn't.
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:19 pm (UTC)he's leaving me alone.
I'll tell you if he isn't.
No more secrets. That means you too, you know.
Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up to No Good: Private message to Evelyn Longbottom
Date: 2012-09-22 06:21 pm (UTC)And yeah, agreed. It goes both ways.
I Solemnly Swear that I am Up to No Good
Date: 2012-09-22 02:57 pm (UTC)How did it go, then?
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Date: 2012-09-22 03:11 pm (UTC)Not really well. I looked a total idiot out there.
Dropped the first quaffle I saved. After I saved it, I mean, but it looked well ridiculous and everyone laughed. Not in a good way. I mean, I wasn't trying to get them to laugh. I was just throwing it back to Angelina.
It was sort of all worse and worse after that.
Ask Nev.
Re: I Solemnly Swear that I am Up to No Good
Date: 2012-09-22 06:11 pm (UTC)I mean, you saved it, didn't you? That's the most important thing.
And you know that if people start laughing, they tend to stay laughing, so no wonder it threw you off your game. But that last save does sound brilliant, and I wish I'd been there to see it. I wouldn't have laughed, either. I'd have been too busy cheering.
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:13 pm (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear that I am Up to No Good
Date: 2012-09-22 06:11 pm (UTC)Slyfrom other Houses, and they would have jeered at everybody. They jeered at McLaggen, when he lunged to guard the wrong goalpost, remember? And they jeered at Ginny when she tried as Seeker, and she was brilliant.But that last save of yours was wonderful, Ron, honestly it was. Nobody was laughing then. Didn't you hear the cheers?
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-22 02:39 pm (UTC)Ron, you went out for the side? I say, good on you! If you'd said something, I'd have come out to cheer you on, mate.
I say, ought we to come out and watch the Slytherins? Pansy and Sally-Anne, do you plan to go?
-Justin
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Date: 2012-09-22 02:57 pm (UTC)I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-09-22 03:13 pm (UTC)Just as well, too.
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Date: 2012-09-22 03:16 pm (UTC)-Justin
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Date: 2012-09-22 03:24 pm (UTC)Even the ones I saved had people falling out laughing.
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Date: 2012-09-22 06:20 pm (UTC)And if Ginny makes it in as Seeker, it'll be like a Weasley family reunion every time we practise.