The Invitation
Liberty Granger sat on her sister Hermione's bed, writing
in her diary while trying to pay attention to the lady on the TV screen telling
her how many pounds of chocolate she should put in a regular seven layer cake.
July
30, 2000
Dear
Diary,
I
can't believe that tomorrow is the day I will get my Hogwarts letter, if I get
it. Boy, I will be so crushed if I
don't get accepted. Hermione says that
I will definatly get in,
but I'm
not too sure. Gees, if I don't get in
Kiwi will torment me forever and a day!
Corpus bones! That would
be horrible! Well, diary, I have to go
now. Hermi is calling me. I think she realizes that it was me who put
the frog in her bed!
Liberty ran out of
Hermione's room, sniggering silently.
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"She does this to me all
the time mom!" Hermione held the frog in her hand, showing it to her mother.
"Liberty? Why did you do this?" Mrs. Granger said in
the sweet tone that she used whenever she wants to hear the truth. Standing in the kitchen with her hands tucked
in her apron pocket she looked quite innocent, but Liberty, who had seen this
routine tons of times, was not fooled.
"Mother, how do you know I
did it? Maybe, it was…the angel Maxi!"
Liberty mentioned her horrible brother, Max, who was strongly favored by Mr.
Granger and looked upon disgustingly by his mother.
"Hmmmm…. perhaps you're
right, my dove." Mrs. Granger used her
old pet name for Liberty, who had been called dove by her mother since she was
born. No one else, however, called her
that. They seemed to think that she was
more of a devil than a dove.
"Mother! How can you trust her? ! ?"shouted Hermione.
Mrs. Granger looked
scornfully at Hermione, and she used her old pet name for her as well.
"Peacock, why do you hate
your sister so?" Mrs. Granger frowned at 'Peacock.'
"Oh, she doesn't hate me,
mom. She is just mad because she thinks
that I put the frog in her bed. Which I
didn't," Liberty added hastily.
"Yeah, mom, she's right…I
really do love her, I just think she is," Hermione emphasized on the
word think "a bit rude and her behavior is sometimes uncalled for." Hermi was quite proper sometimes.
Liberty just laughed as
Mrs. Granger and Hermione started bickering.
She ran upstairs, assaulted the butler and plopped down on her bed,
thinking of another evil scheme she could used to further annoy her sister.
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"I've got it!" Called out Liberty from the porch off of her
bedroom, which was equipped with double-paned doors so that no one inside the
house could hear her, and since she was the only person in her household who
went outside in mid afternoon when dinner had to be on the table, except the
few people she welcomed to join her quest for tricks, no one heard her from the
grounds, either.
"Now, I just need to find a
hornet's nest and it will be perfect."
Liberty searched the lawn, trying to find a tree that would have a
hornet's nest in it, but no such luck.
"Unfortunately, they are
few hornets alive in our back yard for some reason, m'dear." Morwenna, Liberty's nurse since she was a
newborn, walked onto the porch and grinned at Liberty.
"Ahhh, my partner in crime,
Morwenna." Liberty smiled at Morwenna and told her the idea she had to help the
English army.
"Libby, I don't think you
should do that, m'dear. It might
endanger you, and the Cap'in wouldn't like that, now would he?" said Morwenna
in her thick accent.
"So what? Plenty of the things you and me do endanger
me, and I'm still standing here, aren't I?"
Liberty shot back.
"Yes, but, Libby…oh,
alright." Morwenna gave up as Liberty
used her famed 'puppy face' on Morwenna.
"Thank you so much
Morry! I'll be fine, don't worry about
me! I just need a bit of help from
Hermi and maybe some from, well, you."
Liberty smiled her cute little girl smile and Morwenna sighed.
"Alright, I'll help
you. But, I have to go down to the
Dance Paradise to talk to Pa-uh, Mrs. Thomas, you know. I think she can supply the hornet's nest;
there's a huge tree in her back yard that bees flock to all year 'round. Anyway, I have to get something from her and
help out with the shop and Mrs. Finnegan's café. It needs quite a bit of work; she wants to get it done by next
Thursday. Will you help me help her?"
"Of course Morry. By the way, I can call Mrs. Thomas
and Mrs. Finnegan by their first name.
I call Mrs. Thomas Patti whenever I see her outside of dance, and I
always call Mrs. Finnegan Nicole, you know.
Morry, I think I will bring Hermi; she's never met them. I think she would like Danielle, don't you?"
"Yes, she would defiantly
like Danielle, and Ashley and possibly Andrea, and Lizeth, too." Morwenna smiled and left the balcony,
calling out "get dressed, we're going now."
"OK Morry. Should I wear a blue outfit, or red?"
"Well, seeing as it is
summer, I think you should wear which every is coolest."
Liberty hit her head with
the palm of her hand. "Summer? ! ? I completely forgot!" said Liberty
sarcastically.
Morwenna smiled. "Ahhh, I thought you had, seeing as you're
not standing, half hidden, on the servant's staircase as you watch Hermione
skip happily around the house and throwing water over her head as you always
do."
Liberty grinned
evilly. "Yes, I think I should carry on
with my annual summer things and, hmmm, further annoy Hermione, the wonderful
angel, and the star in everyone's eye; except, of course, mother and father's
eye, who truly know how annoying she is."
Just then Maxi ran into the
room and called out "Libby, Libby, Libby!
It's time! I have the water
buckets already, extra cold."
Liberty walked back into
her room, with Morwenna following.
"Wonderful. Shall we?" Liberty extended her arm and Maxi took it. Together they walked down the hallway and
toward the servant's staircase, Morwenna carrying big buckets of water in both
hands.
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"Should we do it now?" Maxi turned to his older sister.
"Shhh! Yes, but wait…wait…now." Liberty and Maxi over-turned the buckets and
the water fell onto Hermione's head.
"Ahhhhh! My new dress! Mother! First you simply
having to get servants, and now this each year? NO! ! !" Hermione
screamed and ran into her mother's arms.
Mrs. Granger gave Liberty and Maxi a thumb's up sign behind Hermi's back
and comforted Hermione. Liberty and
Maxi smiled and ran to their rooms, where they got dressed and settled.
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* * * *
Dear
Diary,
Today
is the day! I haven't let myself go
check the kitchen table yet. I will go
down at lunch, which is in about ten minutes.
Oh, I can't wait! Arrgggh, I
guess I made a mistake about the time.
Mother is calling me now!
Love,
Lib
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* * * *
"Yes mom?" Liberty walked into the kitchen, wearing
short jeans and a blue, denim halter-top.
"Dove, you know perfectly
well 'what.'" Mrs. Granger, wearing a
splendid vest of green with a red shirt underneath and a black skirt, smiled at
Liberty and motioned to the kitchen table.
Liberty grinned nervously
and walked into the kitchen.
Liberty closed her
eyes. Now is the time I will know if
I am magical or not. God help me.
She walked to the table and
opened her eyes. Greeting her was a
small, brown envelope.
Miss Liberty Granger
The Centre Suite
The Children's Wing
4 Cadbury Lane
Washingtonshire, England
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Author's Note: That was
chapter one. Here's some explanation
about the fact that Hermione has servants:
During the summer between
fourth and fifth year, Hermione's aunt Bernice died and left the Grangers a
*ton* of money, and her mother decided to get servants, seeing as their house
was *so* big. Well, that's it. And by the way, Hermione was very mad when
she found out. ^_-
Well, next chapter soon!
Peace and love,
~Cheyenne Rosemount
