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In Charlotte's opinion the rest of the week went by extremely slowly. Her days were spent by avoiding Potter and Lupin with everything she had in her. She mostly managed to avoid their stares, though sometimes she accidentally caught eye contact with one of them, receiving a giant smile from James or a look of pity and sadness from Remus. She couldn't tell which one she hated more.
Today, she had her first quidditch training session of the year. Cedric Diggory - the captain of the team - had already let them know they had a full team and didn't need to do tryouts.
She changed into her quidditch kit, which consisted of black tracksuit bottoms with a yellow hufflepuff quidditch hoodie. Cedric didn't make them wear their quidditch robes, those were solely for the matches seeing as they weren't exactly the comfiest and he didn't like the idea of them being damaged or dirty.
"Have you seen my trainers?" Charlotte asked Erin.
"Under your bed probably," Erin replied. "You really should sort out what you've got in your trunk."
"My trunk is bottomless, Merlin knows what's in there." Lottie grinned, moving her trunk with her foot.
"Sort it out today then!" Erin scolded, hating anything messy.
"I'm going to be tired from practice," Charlotte replied.
"Still! Don't be lazy!"
"Okay okay, I'll do it later, mum." Charlotte replied, grinning at her Erin. She grabbed her very old and slightly tatty trainers, shoving her feet in. "I'll see you after training, I'm already late."
"Have a good session!" Erin waved, turning back to her book.
Charlotte left the dorms, making her way down to the Hufflepuff common room.
"Morning Lottie!" Smiled Ernie Macmillan who was sat at a table doing homework.
"Hey Ernie! Can't talk, gotta go!" She waved, running out of the common room as she realised she was a whole fifteen minutes late.
She ran through the corridors, mentally groaning aa she realised it was still raining.
As she turned the corner to leave the castle and head towards the quidditch field when she felt a body collide with hers, knocking her off of her feet.
"Bloody hell," Charlotte groaned, looking up at her attacker.
"We've got to stop meeting like this!" James Potter said awkwardly, attempting to make her laugh.
"Sorry," Charlotte jumped up, brushing herself off. "I've gotta go...quidditch."
And before he could tell her that they were heading the same way, she had bolted off.
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Lottie ran into the locker room, grabbing her broomstick and quidditch gloves, before running out onto the pitch.
When Lottie reached the quidditch pitch she was a mess. Her hair had gone slightly crazy and she was out of breath, not only that but she was soaking wet from the rain.
"Lupin! You're late!" Cedric sighed. "Twenty push ups!"
Charlotte stared at him as if he had just claimed he had seen pigs fly.
"Are you mad?" She asked, still panting. "I'm going to have a stroke!"
"Don't let me make it 30!" Cedric smirked. He always took the mick out of her during training, whether it was making her do conditioning for silly things or mocking each other, the two had made it an ongoing joke between them.
Lottie rolled her eyes, but she did the press ups anyway.
"Now whilst Lottie does her pushups, let me explain how this years quidditch is going to go!" Cedric grinned. "We'll be changing our tactics a little, something Proffesor Potter will be helping with. He'll also be here at every training session to give you all tips on how to improve!"
At these words, Lottie allowed her body to drop face down in the mud.
"He what-"
"Hey badgers!" The familiar voice of James Potter exclaimed. "Who's excited for this season of quidditch!?"
Cheers went all around the circle of Hufflepuffs. They where all his fans from when he had done professional quidditch and it made Lottie sick.
"Am I allowed to quit right now?"
"Up you get Lottie!" Cedric said happily as he nudged her with his foot. "Time to warm up!"
A quick stretch and warm up later, the Hufflepuffs all stood in front of Cedric and Potter.
Lottie, who was now covered in mud, was contemplating whether she should or shouldn't launch a bludger at James' head.
"Right then! Chasers in the air! I want you working at a hoop each! we need to get the best shots and the best aiming for the match against Gryffindor!" Cedric shouted.
Charlotte, Heidi and Tamsin all flew into the air, each taking a quaffle from Cedric.
"I'll work with the chasers, yeah?" James checked with Diggory.
"Sure!"
James flew up in the air, circling the chasers. He watched them for a moment, wondering what tips he could give to people.
"Tamsin right? Instead of leaning forwards when you throw, try leaning back a little." James advised, flying closer to her.
Tamsin did as he said, surprisingly getting a much faster and a much easier score.
"That's it!" James nodded, a bright smile on his face.
"Thanks Professor!" Tamsin grinned.
James flew forwards a little, just next to Heidi. "Try an over arm throw, it'll take up less energy and there will be less of a chance of missing!"
"Like this?" She threw the quaffle the way he said to, and this time there was more power and and a perfect shot.
"That's it! Well done!" James high fived her.
Lastly, James turned to Charlotte. He watched her play for a moment, she was good at quiditch, just like her mum had been.
James missed Adelaide Winters. Sure, she was never brought up for both Remus' sake, yet he and Lily still missed her. He could already tell Charlotte was like her with the sarcastic comments and the amazing quidditch skills, not only that but she looked like a carbon copy of her - except for the honey brown eyes. Those where Remus' eyes.
"You're pretty good!" James complimented his god daughter.
"Thanks." Charlotte replied dryly.
"Your mum was good, y'know." He said.
Charlotte didn't reply, but secretly she felt a burst of happiness inside her knowing that she was like her mum and not her dad. She hated that she had never actually known what happened to her mum before Hogwarts, only that she had died before her dad took her to the orphanage.
"Can you get that many scores with a keeper in front of the goal?" James asked.
"I dunno, can I?" Charlotte asked, raising an eyebrow at the older man.
In all fairness, everyone knew Lottie was one of the best chasers in the school. Hufflepuff where always doing well in their matches thanks to the amount of scores she got them.
"Let's see then." James smirked, flying just in front of the goals and raising his hands so that he could catch the quaffle as soon as it came near him.
Charlotte shot a quaffle straight towards him and James completely missed it. He watched as it flew over his head and into the goal with a frown on his face. He had just lost to a kid.
"Five minute break!" Cedric roared across the pitch.
"I guess I can," Charlotte smirked, making her way to the bottom of the pitch.
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A few hours later, Charlotte strolled into the Hufflepuff common room, where Alex, Theo and Erin where all playing a card game.
"Hey Lottie!" Alex waved. "Wait...never mind stay back, you smell."
"Rude, I might have to hug you." Charlotte winked.
"Oh dear lord no," Alex shook his head, edging closer to Theo so that they were right next to one another, missing Theos blush.
"I'm going for a shower," said Lottie.
In all honesty, Lottie wasn't happy. James Potter spent the whole of training complementing her quidditch skills which, yes usually people would see that as a good thing but Charlotte didn't it. She didn't want James to be there. She didn't want Lupin to be there.
She wanted them all to leave her the same way they had done eight years ago.
A/N
Eek this is short
Word count: 1364