New Beginnings is a story that is being wrote by four authors here on Cassie08 (which is ran by two peeps), americanidolfreak, and writingrose2008. Who would have thought that all of us go to the same school?
First off, we would like to say that...
WE DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER!
However, we do own a few of the characters. This is our character profile chapter...think of it sort of as a prologue...so don't go complainin'! Here is the actual prologue… followed by our character profiles.
Almost 14 years ago, a family was torn apart. One part was sent to where she would learn of her heritage, know what she was to become. The other was sent to live with people who didn't mention his world, his parents, or his twin sister.
You see, Liz Potter was sent to her godmother Cassie, to somebody who told her of her family. The only thing she didn't know was she had a brother. At least she had family and friends growing up.
Harry Potter, however, was sent to his aunt and uncle, who hated the magic world. He was abused for 10 year, with no friends or family. In fact, he didn't know Liz or Cassie. He knew nothing of the wizarding world.
Now both in their fifth year, some things have changed. Liz has more (and better) friends, and Harry has people who care about him, people he can call "family."
Some things haven't changed. Harry's still abused for one thing and oh yeah….
Liz and Harry still don't know they're twins.
In fact, they don't know each other at all, even though they're in the same year and house.
In fact, a lot of the characters have deep, dark pasts. Casee Ramsey is a pure blood witch who was raised in an orphanage because her deatheater parents are in Azkaban. Lexus Malfoy is also the daughter of pure blood heritage, but is only loves by her brother Draco and hated by her parents for being a little different (and a Gryffindor).
Even the former Hogwarts students have pasts. Rosalina Evermoore is an Ex-deatheater in love with her colleague. Severus Snape's past is the darkest, the only light being his mother and Lily Evans-Potter. Well, hopefully Rosalina can breach that with care.
In the fifth year of Harry's education, everything id is about to turn around.
Loves will be formed
Loves will be renounced
Charms will break
Families will be reunited
Everything will change,
And never be the same
It's Time for….
NEW BEGINNINGS
Now, here are our profiles:
Name: Rosalina Evermoore
Age: 30
House: Former Slytherin
Character Description: Curly (wavy) dark brown hair, brown eyes. Wears green a lot. She's sarcastic to a point, but shows a softer side in extreme situations (like Harry's case).
Background: (put in the author's words) Ok so, she used to be a death eater (SHOCK!) but is reformed. What reformed her? Well, let's just say that it was either that or Azkaban.
Sirius trusts her because she she helped save Cassie and is trying to help Harry. (Cassie thing was a long time ago.) Severus knows her kinda from Hogwarts, but she was overshadowed by whats-her-name...(that Evans girl). Father is dead (killed by Aurors for being a DE) Mother...well, they don't have a great relationship. She's basically thinks Rosalina is a failure in life and doesn't like her. (Yeah, wait 'til she brings Snape home!) That'll be great. Almost has good as her meeting Elveen Prince! (Which, by the way, is NOT gonna go well!) She hates Snape at first, but falls in love with him. At first, she thinks he's evil and not really reformed.
Name: Cassandra "Cassie" Annette Knight (Black later)
Age: Early 30's (same as Sirius)
House: Former Hufflepuff
Character Description: Cassie has shoulder length wavy brown hair and big blue eyes. He's average height (shorter that Sirius) and reasonably thin. She played Quidditch in school, so she's still fit.
Background: Cassie was in Hufflepuff at Hogwarts, and met Sirius and the rest of the Mauraders through her best school friend, was was a Gryffindor. Sirius and Cassie fell in love and got engaged a few months after Harry and Liz were born, and we name their godmother and godfather.
When the whole Pettigrew thing happened, Sirius had just enough time to get back and tell Cassie to go into hiding has wait for him. Because he went to Azkaban, they were never married, though Cassie still wears the ring. By the time Sirius came out, Cassie was going by a different name, taking care of Harry's twin, Liz. Only Liz knows her true identity. Everyone thinks that Amee (Cassie's alias) is Liz's Aunt, and Sirus is under the impression that Cassie has died or moved on to someone else.
But love lasts longer than that, and nothing can keep them apart forever.
Name: Casee Ramsey
Age: 15
House: Gryffindor (fifth year)
Character Discription Golden blonde hair, straightish about the her shoulder blades. Grey eyes. Sorta a medium height, thinish. She's quiet, bookworm, quick wit, sorta sarcastic, hides feelings well, observant not quick to trust people, and a bit clumsy.
Background: At age one, Casee was dumped in an orphanage in east London with a letter telling the nuns who ran it to take good care of her and to give her a second inclosed letter and a package wrapped in brown paper on her 10th birthday.
She never seemed to fit in at the orphanage and only had one friend that was adopted when she was 7. When she would get mad or upset, weird things would happen and that seemed to make the other children a little afraid of her.
On her 10th birthday, as told, the head nun gave Casee the letter and package from her parents. The letter explained that she was a witch and that she was a "pureblood" and therefore above less pure wizards and witches. Somehow that didn't feel right to her, then again she was having a hard time believing she was a witch in the first place. The package turned out to be two books; A History of Magic and Hogwarts: A History.
For the next year Casee spent most of her time reading and re-reading the books her parents had left her. she had thrown the letter into the fire after reading A History of Magic for the first time.
Casee wasn't surprised when Albus Dumbledore showed at the orphanage on her 11th birthday, nor did it seem that Dumbledore was surprised that she knew what she was and why he'd come.
Eight months later, Casee entered the Great Hall hoping to break a long standing habit of her family and not be place in Slytherin. Casee was one of the last people called thanks to her last name, but when Professor McGonagall finally called her name, she quickly walked up, sat on the stool, and the sorting hat fell over her eyes.
She sat there for a long time, or so it seemed to her, a small voice whispering in her ear, reading all her worried thoughts.
"Gryffindor!" the hat finally shouted.
Casee slowly got up and joined her housemates, some not exactly welcoming, being the daughter of two Death Eaters. That's where she met her first best friends. One girl with blonde hair that was at least 10 times lighter that hers iwth ice blue eyes, she was also getting rather mean looks. Lexus Malfoy, she was also the daughter of Death Eaters, only her parents weren't in Azkaban with hers. Elizabeth Sinistra was the other, a girl what always had to be reminded who Harry Potter was.
Over the years, they've remained very close friends, each of them thankful for the other two. Through the odd combination of Quidditich, homework, and classes, Casee's became friends with Harry and got to know him more that just what the rumors said about him.
Life is never simple at Hogwarts, its even harder for a Gryffindor with DE's as parents, but it nearly impossible when she starts falling for not only a Quidditch teammate who is also one of the most well known wizards in the world, who you've been "just friends" with for two years. She may as well come out say it...she loves Harry Potter.
She plays Chaser on the Quidditch team, she's great at all her classes except Herbology, she's brilliant when it comes to Charms and Defense, and just alright in Potions. Also, she's a bit "Hex Happy".
Name: Lexus Malfoy
Age: 15
House: Gryffindor
Character Description: Lexus has straight almost white blonde hair and ice blue eyes. She looks almost like her brother Draco except...you know...she's a girl. She's pretty short in comparison to him and her friends, but she's thin and has Quidditch muscles (she's the Keeper) and Ron is her backup (hehe)
Background: Lexus was always different from her family, but being sorted into Gryffindor was the last straw. Every summer, she's locked in her room while her parents go about their DE business. The only reason she's not starved to death and has money to get things she need is because her brother, her first best friend.
At school, she made fast friends with Casee Ramsey and Liz Sinistra, and by fourth year, had a crush on Ron Weasley.
She loves to write and read, it's her way of escaping, letting go, and in some ways forgiving her parents for what she can. She's quiet, except with her friends and brother, and occasionally with Ron, but NO ONE knows everything that happens to her at home.
Now, the Ron situation is realizing he has more than one choice, and pieces of more than one puzzle are coming together.
Name: Liz Potter (Elizabeth Sinistra to everybody for the first part of the story...)
Age: 15
House: Gryffindor
Character Description: Before the memory charm that keeps Harry and Liz from knowing each other, she has medium, layered light brown hair, brown eyes and contacts (Thank you muggles!). When the charm breaks, she looks like Lily Potter, red hair and has James' hazel eyes. She's pretty slim from playing quidditch.
Background: Liz Potter is Harry's twin but to keep her safe from Voldemort, Lily had Dumbledore place them under a memory charm. Everybody is under the impression that she is Professor Sinistra's daughter or niece. Halfway through the year, the charm breaks. She's lived with her godmother Cassie, who was engaged to Sirius. She was sorted into Gryffindor with her friends Casee Ramsey and Lexus Malfoy. She's kinda ditzy, and usually and litterally runs into people. She's great at charms, so she can charm muggle devices, like iPods, to work in Hogwarts.
She can't stand Umbridge...or Filch or Binns either. Her favorite classes Charms, Defense, and Transfiguration. She hates Potions and History.
Oh and um...don't call her Elizabeth...it may be the last thing you ever do...unless your a teacher or guardian (Sirius and Cassie).
These are our character profiles...there may be new characters that pop up here and there, but the next chapter is the real chapter one!!!!!
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