Stan
August 07, 2014 7:27 PM
An Owl for James Carey by Stan
Stan made his way around delivering letters to each of the new captains as the students feasted in Cascade. There were going to be changes this year in every house and Stan had a lot of work to do. Florence’s scruffy little owl was a little weary by the time he made it to the Aladrens, but he dropped the letter off faithfully and made his way back out. After the feast, James would find his letter on his desk. Florence was grateful that the Aladren team seemed to be doing well with the lack of Quidditch players in other houses.Captain James Carey,
Congratulations, you have been promoted to Quidditch Captain. This year, you will be responsible for putting up signup sheets, holding tryouts, reserving the pitch for your team, and hosting practices throughout the year. You will, of course, have the help of an assistant captain. I would recommend Anthony Carey VIII.
In the few years Florence had been in charge of Quidditch, Aladren had never had a shortage of players to choose from. Anthony, she believed, would do an excellent job as an assistant.
If you would rather another assist you or don’t feel you can perform these duties as Captain, please owl me so I can make sure the right people get their badges before the season officially begins. You may tell your assistant of his or her promotion yourself. Congratulations and good luck.
Coach Florence Olivers
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James and Anthony Carey
August 10, 2014 6:19 PM
A family tradition by James and Anthony Carey
In all the hubbub of lacking adult supervision for the first half of the year, getting used to having adult supervision again after the teachers came back in the second half of the year, kind of worrying that the Head Boy and Girl were going to crack up the whole year, and trying to keep it from public attention that his sister had cracked up late in the year, Jay had all but forgotten that he had officially been Thaddeus Pierce’s Assistant Captain last year. He had worn the badge every day but had started thinking of it as his teacher’s badge, a sign that the younger students should shut up and do as he said, instead of calling it by its proper title.It was, then, a momentary surprise to find the letter announcing his captaincy on the desk in his room, but he recovered quickly, shaking his head when he saw that Anthony was supposed to be his Assistant Captain. Now all Tony had to do was become Head Boy and find a wife and he’d be the most successful of them all.
He found his cousin in the common room, working on the first half of that problem. “Notes to the new prefects,” Anthony explained when Jay raised an eyebrow at the sight of the fine cards Anthony was writing on. “Just congratulating them.”
“As good an excuse for networking as any, I suppose.”
“I’m just being nice,” Anthony protested.
“Just be careful not to write anything the three respectable ones could construe as a ball invitation,” Jay recommended. “Unless you want to go with one of them, anyway.”
“I thought I might ask Effie Arbon, unless you think Henry wants her?” Jay gave him an incredulous look, which he thought was answer enough to such a stupid question. “Right, then.”
“Yeah.” Jay handed him the letter. “If you can make time around hiding from the disappointed ones, you’re now my assistant captain.”
“I am?”
“It’s what the letter says,” Jay said.
“Okay,” said Anthony.
Jay had expected more of a response, considering how Anthony hero-worshipped Arnold and had once signed up as a Seeker just to be like his brother, even though Anthony was too tall to ever really be good at it. The game wasn’t, though, anything like it had been in Arnold’s day – half the teams couldn’t even make – so maybe that was it. Since it didn't really matter, though, Jay wrote back to Coach Olivers to let her know he and Anthony accepted and went to write a sign-up sheets without thinking any more about it.
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