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gottagogofast:

Gogo sighed deeply, blowing a chunk of colored hair away from her face. The things she had to deal with on this team, honestly. “Uhuh,” she responded dead pan because yeah, she knew. You had to learn the secret language of Hercules Katsaros if you hoped to survive this many years with him. “Are there any other captain duties that you need me to do while we’re here?”

“No, I’m good! I mean, unless there’s something else you want to help with,” he added, folding his arms and taking a little step back from Gogo.

“So, do you have any ideas? Stuff you’d like to see or do, stuff the chasers might have to work on?” he asked, genuinely curious.

#c: gogo

courageousbrisby:

Brisby didn’t spend as much time in the library as a professor probably should. As a student, this used to be one of her safe havens, but now she didn’t have to worry about privacy. The benefits of having your own office, with your own bookshelves to stock. However, today was different. Timmy was starting to come down with something else, and a visit to St Mungos was out of the question with her busy schedule. So, she was looking for a book of home remedies.

As she passed by her student, however, she slowed. She might have just let him be before, but the boy seemed awfully lost in whatever he was reading. Which made sense, considering he was reading a book about magic and a book about muggles side by side. She couldn’t help but speak up. “Hello Hercules…is everything alright?”

Herc looked up to meet the eyes of his head of house, giving a little smile and a nod. For once, he wasn’t cramming for some last minute assignment - yes, some of this content was stressful, but he was feeling okay about it.

“Yeah, it’s all okay, Professor!” Herc took a second to survey Professor Brisby’s face, and he could tell that she seemed a little... well, that was the thing. He wasn’t sure. Was she stressed? Worried? Busy? He couldn’t tell. Whatever the case, he figured he would ask.

“Is everything alright with you?” he asked.

#c: brisby

daringcowgirl-deactivated201802

“Howdy kiddo”

lionheartedherc-blog

“Oh! Hey! What’s up, Jessie? How’re you?”

#hey binch #c: jessie

sweetlittlecaramelcake:

“Well thats good…..better early than late.” she giggles a bit and smiles more at him.

“I’m guessing that you already know what you want to do after school.” She says as she holds a small stack of books in her arms, she gently put it down on the table where he was since they were getting heavy.

“If you don’t need help is it okay I sit here to study too?” she asks him shyly.

“Yeah, for sure! It’s not totally usual for me, but it feels good to have a start, y’know?” Herc asked, smiling and shaking his head at her question.

“That’s totally fine! Yeah, come, sit,” he moved over a little to let her put her books down, “and yeah, I mean... I think I want to try and get into the auror program...”

#c: cc

sweetlittlecaramelcake:

CC was going around the library grabbing books she thought she might needed for her exams. As she wonders around she notice a student sitting a lone at a table, looking very confused as they stare at the textbook. Feeling a bit nervous to go up to them, seeing that they are a Gryffindor, but she thought the other might needed some help.

“H…hi…d…do you need any help with studying?” She asks the other with a shy smile.

Herc glanced up at the girl in front of him, raising his eyebrows and glancing around at all of the materials in front of him. He gave a small laugh and shook his head, sitting back.

“Oh, no - no, I’m okay! I’m just trying to get a head start on stuff,” he admitted, “it’s my last year, so I want to kinda... start off ahead, y’know?”

#hi there!!#c: cc

Seventh year for Hercules Katsaros had started pretty much as he’d expected it to. Work was already piling up for the year ahead, and Herc could see himself starting to struggle just a little. He’d never been the most academically minded - he’d done enough to pass, and he was pretty confident he’d do the same this year. But with a faint, somewhat-far-away dream of being an auror rattling around, he knew he’d need to step up the studies a little in his final year.

All these thought culminated and brought Herc to a place he’d seldom spent much time in over his years at the school - the library. He seemed to be poring over both a Defence Against the Dark Arts textbook and a Muggle Studies reading with his hand scratching absent-mindedly and somewhat confusedly at his chin.

#haopen

gottagogofast:

When he started to beat around the bush, she took her hands out of her pockets and instead folded her arms. It was impossible getting a straight answer out of this guy. By the end of it all she was just looking at him skeptically, an eyebrow high in the air. “So when you asked me out here, it wasn’t really to show me any new drills you’d come up with but to beg me for my help in coming up with some for you.” She said bluntly. To be fair, it wasn’t an attack on him in any way, just the bluntness that she was infamous for.

In the end, she shook her head and rolled her eyes. “Yeah, I could probably come up with some new ideas. Shake things up from our usual routines.”

Herc gave a slightly uneasy smile and a slow nod. “... Yeah, that’s kinda what I need.” He rocked back and forth on his feet before noticing Gogo’s head-shake and eye-roll. Yes, she’s on-side.

“Thank you so much! Honestly, I think it’s going to be best for the whole team, not least of all you - ‘cause you know, I could try to come up with some stuff but I won’t really be able to feel if it’s working, you know? Because like - yeah, you know?” Herc’s eyebrows raised and he smiled at Gogo, giving a little shrug as if she should have known exactly what he was talking about.

#c: gogo

hogwartsanimated

Here we are folks, our first quidditch match of the new year! And what an amazing match it was!

Hufflepuff began with an early lead, getting in the first five goals of the match before Gryffindor could even get one! The Gryffindor seeker thought they could come in and close out the match when they seemed to spot the snitch, but the Hufflepuff beaters (for lack of a better term) beat them to the punch and managed to knock their focus!

The Hufflepuff chasers continued their lead, however, things took a turn for the worst when Gryffindor beater, Hercules Katsaros, hit a nasty bludger into the opponent’s chaser. Although they managed to take the hit like a champ and stay on their broom, they were clearly shaken (or perhaps concussed–it happens). The uniform teamwork that Hufflepuff is known for began to fall apart and with it, their lead. Gryffindor chaser, Gogo Tanaka, took advantage of this and began to intercept all Hufflepuff passes, followed by a lot of Gryffindor scoring. Within the half hour, not only had Gryffindor’s score caught up, but soon completely passed their opponent. They kept wracking up goal after goal until they passed the coveted 150 marker–where even catching the snitch would not win Hufflepuff the game.

The Hufflepuff defense that had done the team so well in the beginning had a hard time dividing their attention. Although they tried their best to keep the chasers at bay, they were forced to focus their energy on the Gryffindor seeker, who–whether actually or just a clever ruse–seemed to keep spotting the snitch. However, Hufflepuff’s efforts were not in vain. Because of the beaters’ focus on the opponent seeker, Hufflepuff had a clean and easy catch of the snitch, finally ending the first match of the season!

In the end, despite not catching the snitch, Gryffindor was victorious, with a score of 470 to 350! Tune in next week for the next match, Slytherin v Ravenclaw! See you then!

#quidditch

gottagogofast:

To be honest, Gogo was pretty much in a perpetual state of rolling her eyes when it came to Hercules, with an occasional smirk thrown in the mix. Today isn’t any different. She followed beside him, easily keeping up if not overtaking him despite her much shorter legs.

“Might want to think about getting that legally changed then. Warn people ahead of time,” she replied, rather facetiously. Soon they were outside and she shoved her hands in her pockets, shifting her weight as she watched him in a rather blase manner. “I don’t need the whole salesman spiel, what do you got for me?”

Herc tended to slouch and lumber along, knowing full well that his long legs would let him get anywhere quickly enough. He let Gogo overtake him but was right behind her as he started his grand plan. He paused and put his hands on his hips when she tried to rush him along, and would have looked a little disappointed if he didn’t look so... sheepish?

“Ah, see... that’s the thing. I... am kind of coming up dry. Y’know, it’s our last year, N.E.W.Ts will be here before we know it and you know study doesn’t come easy to me, so I really have to stay on the ball. I can come up with beater drills with my eyes closed, but I’ve got, like... nothing for the chasers. Nothing I haven’t done in previous years, anyway.”

#c: gogo

gottagogofast:

Gogo rolled her eyes, but couldn’t help the smirk that tugged at her lips. “You know you’re needy and unbearable, right?” She said, with the most love she could conjure for the boy standing before her.

With a deep huff, she went to stretch her arms over her head, which still barely reached his full height. “Alright, show me these drills then.”

“Gogo, needy and unbearable are my middle names.” Herc turned on his heel and went to head towards a more open area - he couldn’t really be bothered heading all the way to the pitch, so a grassed area would do. As he walked, he glanced back.

“Okay, that’s not strictly true, I don’t have a middle name. But hey,” he shrugged, before turning back to face her once they’d found some space. “Now, I have the beater drills down easy. Some back and forth work and targets for accuracy, all that. The chaser stuff is what I’m struggling with, y’know? I gather you guys don’t want to be doing the same old drills.”

#c: gogo

gottagogofast:

She merely shrugged at his assertion that it might be different. Normally, she was a lot more standoffish or abrasive to men, but after years of forced teamwork, he’d worn her down to be almost downright personable.

“That sounds suspiciously like you’re about to ask me for a favor,” she responded, folding her arms and cocking an eyebrow. Okay, maybe not that personable.

Herc grinned and rocked back and forth on his feet, shaking his head. At first, Herc had been downright scared of Gogo, it was true. But as she warmed up, he did in turn, and then some.

“Oh, please... I mean, I am working out some new Quidditch drills and could use another trained eye but like... psh, I’m not going to ask you, one of my longest-standing and most trusted teammates, right?” he asked with a shrug.

#c: gogo

gottagogofast:

She should have known better. Her expression softened only marginally when she saw it was her teammate, and a huff passed her lips as she stood up. “Yeah, you’ve got an eye for something alright,” she muttered to herself. With a click of her heels, her shoes transfigured back to normal, leaving her practically half of her teammate’s height.

“Do I ever?” She asked in a deadpan voice as she dusted herself off.

Herc couldn’t help but smirk a little at her continued deadpan attitude - it didn’t really faze him after all their years on the Quidditch team together. He glanced down at her and took a small step back when Gogo returned to her usual height, shrugging a little as he lulled his head around.

“Nooot usually, but hey. Thought today might be different,” he added. “Does that mean you don’t have anywhere to be?”

#c: gogo

gottagogofast:

Gogo was used to weaving in and out of people while she skated the hallways of Hogwarts. After all, she’d practically made a career out of it. But every once in awhile, there came a situation that she couldn’t predict ahead of time, or came right out of nowhere.

This was one of those times. As the person appeared before her, she gasped, nearly swallowing the wad of pink gum ruminating in her mouth. Her reflexes kicked in, and she just barely managed to dodge them with a spin. Her balance was thrown off however, and she was knocked forward, having to catch herself with her hand. Panting slightly, she looked up at the perpetrator with a glare.

“Hey, watch where you’re going!”

Herc truly wasn’t looking where he was going as he rounded the corner, but as was his reflex when people crashed into him, he threw out an unnaturally steady arm to help them if they needed it. After a second, he realised just who had barrelled into him, and that had him smirking small.

“Me? C’mon, Gogo, you know I’ve got a good eye. I’m not saying you ran into me, but...” Herc paused, glanced around and smirked small as he shrugged. “I’ll watch myself, though. You rushing for a reason today?”

#c: gogo