Owl Pals

Chapter 5

Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all it's characters belong to J.K Rowling. The Idea and the basic plot it mine so don't steal it J

Summery: In Harry's Fifth year Professor Dumbledore comes up with an idea to have 'Owl Pals'. The students each pick a person from the Sorting hat and write to them by using a pen name. What becomes of this?

Category: Romance/ Friendship

Ships: H/Hr, R/L, G/D

Harry flew around the Quidditch Pitch surveying the latest Quidditch Players who where trying out for the team. They had decided to make a reserve team tryout as well as the Keeper tryouts seeing as everyone apart from Harry (and the new Keeper) would be leaving after the year had finished. Many Gryffindor's had put their names down for the tryouts and there had been a few surprises as-well.

"Alright, we have decided the first tryout will be for the Reserve Seeker. Although it pains me to say this I'm not going to be able to be in every Quidditch Match and as we found out in third year a reserve seeker would be a good idea." There was a pause while the people trying out for seeker came over to where Harry was standing. Then Harry started to speak again.

"We will be using golf-balls as the snitch as it will take forever to find it and we don't want to lose it. Alright First up Fred Abbot." Fred Abbot was Hannah Abbot's younger brother. He was a third year and Harry didn't really know the third year's very well but he had seen him coming to practices and watching the matches from time to time. Fred didn't seem nervous at all. Harry quickly wrote on the seeker sheet how many golf balls' he managed to get and how many he didn't. (4 missed and 6 caught) Soon he got through all the seeker tryouts and the best one by far was Ginny Weasly, Ron's younger sister although not as good as Harry she managed to get 9 of the golf balls. She blushed when Harry told her that she was good. Soon Harry got to the Chasers.

"Alright first 3 people up…." Harry's eyes went wide when he saw the name of the first person; Harry then tried again, "First one Hermoine Granger, second Lavender Brown, third Neville Longbottom" Harry saw that Ron was in shock as well.

Meanwhile Hermoine was nervous. She really didn't like flying on a broom like she had said to her Owl Pal, but Lavender had dared her to go on and she wasn't one to say no to a dare. She got onto the broom and surprisingly (she hadn't taken Flying since 3rd year when it had become an optional class) she managed to take off with out anything going wrong. Neville had done the same thing. All three managed to work together perfectly as a team. They managed to work together in snick. They got all the Bludgers that were thrown at them in the goals. The best beaters turned out to be Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan and Ron did well as the Keeper, but so did Parvati Patil. The tryouts where over but Harry and the rest of the team still had a lot of work cut out for them as they had to decide on the team. They where all in agreement for making Ginny the reserve seeker, for Hermoine, Lavender and Neville as the reserve chasers and Dean and Seamus for reserve beaters. They took along time deciding between Ron and Parvati. Fred, George and Harry where voting for Ron but Angelina, Katie, and Alicia where all voting for Parvati. The problem being was that Ron and Parvati had each blocked the same amount. Or else deciding would have been easy.

"Why don't we settle this by making each of them come back and doing the try out again and then the one that blocks the most goals can be keeper and the other reserve?" Harry suggested.

"Yeah that could work"

"Brilliant Harry" Both twins said at once.

"I suppose"

"Yeah…"

"I'll tell Ron, but I'm going to need someone to tell Parvati."

"I will" Alicia volunteered.

"So are we all in agreement with the rest of the reserve team?" Harry asked. They all nodded.

White Harry was deciding the team the others where all replying to there Owl Pals.

Hermoine was having a difficult time trying to figure out what to say to Ron. She decided to Bypass the whole 'I think they like each other' bit but she was dying (well not really) to know what Ron thought of her at the Quidditch tryouts.

Dear Ron,

You did great at the tryouts! (I know because I was there). You mean you where friends with Hermoine Granger from the beginning? Does she know that? Anyway what did you think of Hermoine at the tryouts? I thought she did all right. Wasn't Neville a surprise?

You know you shouldn't really write letters in class you should be paying more attention. Wait scratch that. I wrote to you in class and to my own owl pal in class so technically I'm being a hypocrite. I have to wonder when where all going to be aloud to tell everyone where who they are. Anyway I guess ya can call me OP (standing for Owl Pal of course.) I'm calling my owl pal P.

Well I better go, homework's calling.

OP

Ron was reading Quidditch through out the ages. He hoped he had made the actual team but wouldn't mind if he made the reserve, as he knew the team would be having trouble deciding who should be keeper. Parvati was good, he would admit that. Harry then came over and Ron looked up.

"Well?" Ron asked with out stalling.

"We haven't decided yet but it's come down to you and Parvati. So it wouldn't take all night we would like you two to come and do a re tryout but don't tell anyone!" Harry said firmly. "But congratulations anyway… you make the team no matter what even if you don't make the official team you'll still be a reserve." Ron smiled at Harry.

"Thanks, where you as surprised as me when Hermoine tried out?" Harry nodded.

"Oh I forgot to tell Alicia something, I'll be back in a moment alright?"

"Yeah okay" Harry ran over to where Alicia and Katie where talking.

"Hey Alicia, when you tell Parvati about the Keeper thing can you tell her not to tell anyone about the re-tryout? That way it will be just Ron and Parvati there." Alicia nodded.

"Are we going to announce the rest of the reserve team?" Katie asked. Harry shook his head.

"It would be better if we had the places sorted out before we tell everyone" Alicia and Katie both nodded. Now the only problem was who was going to be Keeper?

To be continued