WHO: Potter boys WHAT: James wants to watch Harry seek WHERE: by James and Lily's place WHEN: Sunday 24th July, morning WHY: James needs to fanboy Harry a bit for a change RATING: G STATUS: in progress
It was hard for James to believe that Harry - his son, Harry - was a champion seeker and had never mentioned it. It was crazy. All the awkwardness, all the attempts to be James' friend, and yet boasting and showing off had apparently never occurred to him. It would have been James' first instinct - and this was yet more evidence of how much more like his mother Harry was in temperament.
But here James stood, feet firmly on the ground but head in the clouds, watching Harry dip and dive and swish and swoop in his quest for the snitch. James knew Harry was a good flier, and he'd made a fair beater, but a beater didn't need to do all these fancy twists. Bludgers were big, and their course predictable. You needed to be fast, and accurate with the bat, and preferably strong, but you didn't need to fly like a seeker did. James was proud, knowing that Harry had gotten that flying ability from him - a chaser like James needed to be able to dodge and swerve, and that took a certain dexterity in the air that he could see mirrored in Harry's method. But Harry, being so much lighter, was faster, and infinitely more graceful about it. It quite took James' breath away. He hadn't seen anyone so good since he'd attended the Quidditch world cup when he was a little kid. And they had been professional. And more importantly, they had been not James' son. By the time Harry caught the snitch, performing a perfect and graceful dive that veered level mere inches from the ground, James was hollering and cheering with gay abandon. He ran over to where Harry was landing with enviable ease.
"That was amazing!" he called, out of breath but still managing a fair volume. "You're brilliant Harry!"