<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 15pt;">Quidditch Tryouts</span></strong></div><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/27/Claire_Gryff_1.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Claire Skies<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Quidditch Uniform<br/><strong>Blood Status:</strong>Halfblood<br/><strong>Wand</strong>: Pear Wood, Dragon Heartstring, 10 1/3 inches with two twists<br/><strong>House/Year</strong>: Gryffindor/ 4th Year<br/><strong>Date</strong>: Saturday September 24rd<br/><strong>Time/Day:</strong>11:00 AM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Qudditch Pitch<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong>Tryouts<br/>(Optional)<strong>MOOD MUSIC:</strong>Stand Out/Goofy Movie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlMZXtATye4)<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Open<br/><hr/><br/>Claire like to pride herself on being a student that wasn't afraid of taking the iniative, and could handle responsibility well. It wasn't something to shy away from but to aspire too. Yet when she had walked into Hogwarts on the first of September she had done so, simply as Gryffindor's Seeker. Which on it's own came with pressure. It wasn't<em>just</em>the position that ended the game with a hundred and fifty points, it was the position that had been played by<em>the</em>Harry Potter, just four seekers ago. The bar was set farly high on that merit alone,<em>even though under Potter's watch Gryffindor only won once.</em>They did still win it,<em>though if legend was to be believed the year they won Potter had been suspended and they won their only cup without him.</em>It didn't matter that the odds were Potter wasn't the best quidditch player, he was the wizard that vanquished the dark lord twice before he was twenty. That was something worth taking pride in. Since he had passed through the halls of Hogwarts Gryffindor had done on four more occasions, to play quidditch for the Gryffndor house came with the highest expectations and losing a single match was like telling someone their mum died.<br/><br/>Now Claire had been named the bloody captain, and was the<em>only</em>student left over from their championship run the previous year. The captain that had won graduated along with one of the beaters. It was supposed to be Harvey Pritchard to be captain, he was a sixth year and had been on the team since his second year. But then rather than just rat out Slytherin when he saw them cheating he went and cheated himself, and roped the rest of the bloody team into his scandal while he was at it. With literally no one else on the team Claire was named captain, and now she had to fill every position with unproven players.....Naturally the team that had the least holes was the Slytherin team.<em>Probably</em>how they planned it from the start.<br/><br/>Though she didn't like the idea of having the position of captain. After all it was earned by apparently being the only member on the team not to cheat,<em>not a reflection of her skills</em>. She had gotten up early and prepared for all the specifics she wanted to see from her team trying out. Flying was obviously important if you couldn't stay on your broom you couldn't be a asset to the team. However awareness, accuracy, team work, improvisation, and hand eye coordination were just as important.<br/><br/>Moving out to the quidditch pitch with her broom in hand she'd move up to the sign up tables which would have been arranged  in a row with each house, exactly arranged like they were in the great hall, and she'd sit at the Gryffindor post with her arms folded. She arrived first, but it wouldn't be long before the lines came and the events were underway. She was going to have a positive mindset about this, the loss of the team just meant gems in the rough that hadn't been discovered due to previous bias could emerge. Gryffindor could still be the first team since Slytherin to win in back to back years.