Okay, so I've been working on this fic for a while. It's a Marauders Era Harry Potter fanfiction with a oc who grew up with James Potter. I'll just post the first chapter for now, leave a comment and let me know what you think. I had to make up a lot of names to write the story and fill in details that where I couldn't find info in the books or online so bare with me.
Marya woke up early on the morning of August 28th of 1971, extremely excited. She wasted no time in dressing and waking up her mother and father. They were to travel to Diagon Alley to buy Marya's new school things. It would be her first year at Hogwarts. she was excited to go after all of her brothers had gone. She would be there with two of the three, as the oldest—Berk—had just finished his studies at school the year before and was working as a Dragonologist in Romania.
But as of now, Berk was at home, waiting to hear from the Lead Dragonologist, who was currently on a much needed holiday in the Tropics after a rather harsh encounter with a Ukrainian Ironbelly. Marya ate breakfast, speaking in rapid Quidditch jargon, with her brother Ruslan, who was going to start his fourth year at Hogwarts and was a beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. They were discussing last nights' match in Exmoor, Holyhead Harpies versus Kenmare Kestrels. The Harpies had won, narrowly. When their mother came downstairs, she joined them, still extremely joyous from Holyhead's win. Zhanna Variennikova, their mother, was the Harpies' Director and before that, a chaser for the team. The result of being a famous Quidditch player was that Marya's mother never changed her name when she married Marya's father.
"Those last few saves make by Palladecki! Unbelievable!" proclaimed Ruslan.
"We would have been finished if she hadn't though!" Marya said in return, "I mean can you imagine if we caught the Snitch and still lost?"
Their mother merely laughed and smiled with every point they brought up in their conversation.
Marya's other brother, the middle one, Kadri, was going over an article in The Daily Prophet about a recent arrest made by the Auror office, Kadri was beginning his sixth year at Hogwarts, and being very successful in his O.W. L's, had began to consider following their father into the Auror career path. Their father, Demir Bardakçi, was currently the Deputy Head of the Auror office, as well as a very skilled wizard.
Berk on the other hand, was reviewing some notes in his journal, and from what Marya could see was slowly adding notes around what looked like a Norwegian Ridgeback.
"Berk, what dragons have you worked with so far?" Marya asked him eagerly.
Berk looked up at his little sister, and smiled, shifting his chair over to her. He flipped back through the first few pages of his journal, "So they start us off with babies of the tamer breeds, like Welsh Greens and the Swedish Short-Snout, Dale DiAngelo, and I studied them as they grew into matured adults. I think we are going to start with Norwegian Ridgebacks, Hebridean Blacks, and Antipodean Opaleyes soon."
"Which one's your favourite? Marya asked, having a deep affinity for the look of the Romanian Longhorn herself.
"Truthfully, I really loved watching the Welsh Greens, simple as they are beautiful, and besides, we've seen them all the time growing up here." Berk ran his hand through his dark hair and gave his sister his bright smile with a sparkle in his green eyes, that contrast surprisingly well with his olive skin. Although it was awkward when other girls in their neighbourhood, whether they were wizard or muggle, asked her if she thought her brother was handsome, Marya did actually agree, her oldest brother did have certain features that one might find attractive. But the thought made the eleven-year-old shudder.
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"Um, mama, what time should we go to the Potters?" Marya asked as Berk magically cleared the plates. The Potters lived just down the road from the Bardakçis; their son had been friends with Marya for quite sometime, they did quite a lot together and were the same age, although he was roughly two months older than Marya, but they would be in the same year at Hogwarts, and hopefully they'd be in the same house.
"As soon as we're done cleaning up breakfast we'll walk over there, Kotik." Kotik, the Russian word for kitten was her mother's affectionate nickname for Marya.
After a half and hour had past, Marya and her three brothers walked, well Marya ran, down the road with their parents behind them. Marya flicked her two long dirty blonde braids behind her shoulders and knocked on the Potter's front door. It was a boy who answered. This boy had jet black hair that always stuck up in the back, with hazel eyes and pale skin. This boy was James Potter. James was an only child, and loved every bit of it. Mr. and Mrs. Potter were older than Mr. and Mrs. Bardakçi, but were extremely kind never the less. They were dressed in cloaks in their family room, they were going to apparate, or the adults were going to apparate, with the children going to be side-along apparating. Mrs. Potter was going to take James. Ruslan was going with Mrs. Bardakçi and Kadri with Mr. Bardakçi, and Marya was going with Berk. They appeared in Diagon Alley, right by Gringotts, the wizarding bank. Although, James and Marya didn't care so much as to going into the bank, it was something they'd both seen hundreds of time before.
"Kadri, can you wait here with the two of them, I doubt they need two trouble makers in the bank." Mrs. Bardakçi asked her second oldest.
"No problem, mama." Kadri smiled, but turned to the two eleven year olds, "Or, at least I hope there won't be a problem."
The adults, as well as Berk and Ruslan, followed one of the Goblins down to their vaults.
James, Kadri and Marya talked about school for a long time. James and Marya having listened to all of Marya's brothers talk about school and classes, and of course the inter-house Quidditch Cup.
Once the adults had come back from their bank vaults, the Bardakçis and the Potters walked down the alley first to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. Madam Malkin was a squat witch dressed in mauve, she confirmed that Marya and James needed Hogwarts robes and had them both step up in front of the two mirrors in the back and took their measurements. The two stood smiling as they put on their robes for the first time, they fit perfectly, and Madam Malkin proceeded to box them up, the kids took their boxes out of the shop and looked over their school lists, they still needed wands, their course books, a telescope, a cauldron, a set of phials and a set of scales. They bought their cauldrons from Potage's Cauldron Shop, their phials from Slug and Jigger's Apothecary, their telescopes and scales from Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment, they still needed their wands and books.
They headed to Ollivander's next, James and Marya were both nervous to say the least. Marya's brothers had each come out of Ollivander's with all sorts of stories, Berk was told about the benefits of each type of core in an Ollivander wand. Kadri was told about all sorts of wizards that and the wands they had. To the two eleven year olds, it seemed as though Garrick Ollivander remembered ever wand he'd ever sold. Ruslan attempted to find out what kind of wand Albus Dumbledore had, with no real answer, but left with a strange look in Ollivander's eye. Mr. Ollivander was standing in front of the desk, going over some numbers in the book in front of him.
Looking up at the two, who were in the shop alone, their parents and siblings went to get books and look at broomsticks, he said to Marya, "Ah, I believe you are the conclusion of the Bardakçi children? I remember when your brothers and parents came in here for their own wands. Come," he beckoned her forwards. Marya was first. "Your father's wand was Aspen I believe, 14 inches, unicorn hair core. I wonder if a similar wand would suit you, your brother Kadri has a wand of the same material, useful for duelling. He handed a wand to her, "Give it a wave!" he said.
Marya waved the wand and shattered a glass on a table. Mr. Ollivander quickly took the wand back. Marya was still terrified of the fact she'd destroyed something. But Mr. Ollivander seemed used to it and continued. "Berk's wand was one of my favourites. 12 inches, Chestnut with a Dragon-heartstring core. Chestnut is quite valuable for the taming of Magical beasts, as well as being suitable for duelling, should you find the need or desire." He pulled a wand out of a box. "12 ¼ inches, Chestnut, Phoenix-feather core. Give this a try."
When Marya grasped the wand, it vibrated and then settled in her hand. Marya smiled at Mr. Ollivander and then James. When James took his turn, Mr. Ollivander finally found him a wand after one broken ink bottle, one shelf of wands de-shelved, and one cracked window. The wand in James' hand was eleven inches and made of Mahogany with a unicorn hair core.
Marya and her brother's headed down the street to buy Marya an owl, as a start of term present. She had forgotten that each of her brothers had gotten owls in their first years too. They opened the door the Eeylop's Owl Emporium, where their eyes were set on at least a hundred owls of various breeds.
"What kind of owl do you want, Mars?" Berk asked her. Marya hadn't really thought about it. Berk had gotten a snowy owl which he called Burya, the Russian word for storm.
"I don't know, what do you think?"
"You should get a Barn Owl, Marya." Kadri said, "I think one would suit you."
"D'you think?" they walked down to a small section of barn owls. On the top of a large shelf, there was a large barn owl with a large, white, heart-shaped face. When Marya looked up at it, it looked down at her.
She held her arm out and the owl flew to her.
Marya smiled, nodding, "This one."
After Berk had paid 10 galleons for Marya's owl, the four walked back up the alley to Florean Fortescue's and joined their parents. James and his parents joined them shortly after, James was carrying a wicker basket cage from Magical Menagerie.
"What did you get?" Marya asked him.
"A kitten." James smiled. James had always loved cats. He opened the basket and pulled out a small, black kitten with yellow eyes. It was extremely fluffy.
"What are you gonna call her?" Marya asked taking the small cat from James.
"Shadow." He smiled again and cuddling the cat in his arm.
As the two enjoyed the company of their new pets, they realized that they couldn't be more excited to head to school.
