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No one is expecting him to be awake at four in the morning. No one, in fact, is expecting him to be awake before around seven in the morning, it appears. The dorms' silence is only broken by the soft snores, and the common room doesn't have even that.
Pottervor
"You're incredible at it! I heard great things about your mother but it's something else to actually see it in action."
The following Thursday they have flying lessons again.
"So, as you've probably all heard seventeen hundred times over since last Thursday, first-years are now allowed to try out for Quidditch—if I deem them capable of not getting themselves and others killed with a broom. So today's lesson will be a little different, and I'll give you a few instructions and evaluate how well you follow them and take to the air."
She will give a few simple instructions—like, take off vertically, go up fifty feet, then return—and watch as the students do them, writing things as she does.
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Dayo is actually pretty good, too. She lacks Victor's natural skill, but makes up for it by being an extremely quick learner.
Draco learnt some things wrong but once they're corrected he's had quite a lot of practice flying in his life already.
Madam Hooch allows Dayo and Ron to try out, although Ron only barely scrapes by. Neville is completely hopeless and satisfied with this. After collecting Hooch's permission slips, the Gryffindor firsties will have tryouts this evening (Slytherin's tomorrow), and Ron is definitely going regardless of how well he did.
Indeed! Oliver Wood is already there waiting for them when they get there. He winks at Victor when he sees the boy.
"I know Hooch said you won't kill yourselves flying," he says after collecting their permission slips, "but we have a higher bar. Everyone without their own broom can use one of the school's." He gestures towards the pile of brooms on the ground and the other Gryffindors scramble to get one each.
And Wood tells them to try a series of flying exercises and tricks of increasing difficulty, hmming and aahing as he watches. After about ten minutes of this, a few other Gryffindor players arrive and Wood starts assembling small subteams that will test each other's strengths in their preferred positions. Victor will play Seeker with glowing enchanted balls.
He is extremely good at it!
After about half an hour Wood thanks and dismisses them all, and tells them they'll have results on Saturday and training sessions begin next week.
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The next day Dayo herself is excited about Slytherin tryouts but Malfoy will also be there so that's a slight bummer.
On Saturday morning the notice board in the Gryffindor common room announces the official team. Victor made it. Ron, Seamus, and Parvati did not.
