A/N: Written for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Year 1 Flying, with the prompts: opportunity, flight, relationship, teaching, finding, lake, length,

Just from a Year of Teaching

Rolanda Hooch was proud of all her students, from Neville Longbottom who'd almost killed himself on a broom but had still had the courage to climb back on, to Harry Potter who'd taken to the sport like a natural. She was proudest, however, of Ginny Weasley.

Maybe it was because Ginny was one of those students that always came to her for help, rather than the Quidditch Captains. After all, Flying was only taught in the first year, and the only ones that continued to learn were ones that hoped to, someday, secure a spot on their House team. But most of those players were overconfident, simply doing easy laps every now and then and then bulking up for tryouts. Ginny was a rare breed, then, because she tried to learn every trick she could, when her brothers weren't around to tease her.

Rolanda was more than happy to help. She knew all about teasing elder brothers, who'd succeeded in dashing her hopes of contracting with the Holyhead Harpies, the Quidditch World's only pure-girl team. But that had been in an era where the female race weren't much more than housewives; she'd been lucky, to have a job at all in that time. And she'd kept it, even if it hadn't been quite what she wanted, in the hopes that her students could join the professional Quidditch world when she herself could not.

And her students were spectacular, taking what she taught and creating new levels. They moved away from her so fast, leaving a new batch of students that could barely tell the handle of a broom from its tail. By the end of the year, they could soar the length of the lake without a problem. And, while she did supervise the Quidditch teams, she paid no active role than referring their matches.

Ginny Weasley was one of the few who came back to her after first year, who grew and grew and grew under Rolonda's care, who came to her even after she'd secured a spot on the Quidditch team in her fifth year. She was also the first student to successfully secure a contract with the Holyhead Harpies – after many male students before her.

Rolanda was honestly surprised, because it happened in the aftermath of the second war. Most others in her year, and the one above, had participated in the Battle of Hogwarts like she, and had gone on to be Aurors, or Ministry workers. But she'd chosen a different path, a part that, instead of protection and rehabilitation, led to keeping alive the entertainment world, through their sport.

When Ginny's decision had been frowned upon by her peers, it was Rolanda who stood up for her. And it was Rolanda to who the younger students came, trying to revitalise the smiles while others held the world up straight. Some wanted to follow in her footsteps completely, becoming Quidditch players in their own right. Others went on to replace the Weird Sisters and other music sensations pre-war. Others still went into different entertainment industries, some even revitalising the old drama school that had failed to stand on its feet after Voldermort's initial reign. And the world was finally able to stop straining to hold themselves together in the fragile peace, and relax.

It took three years before people stopped fixing things and started fixing people, and Rolanda was happy to say she'd had the opportunity to play a tiny part in it.