Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix
Writer: Terra
Chapter one: The letter
Disclaimer: blah blah.. none of those are mine.. everything
belongs to J.K.Rowling except the characters I created.. and
I guess the plot..
Note: this is my first fan fic everyone!! Please read and
review!! Chapter one might be a tad boring.. I updated it
though! I wrote in everything I meant to write! please read!
This might be my first story but I assure you I have given a
lot of thought to the plot so it might as well be worth
reading (I hope)... Please feel free to write how you feel
since, even if you don't like it, I need to know how you
feel..
Note 2: though we share the same name, me and the character
Terra are not the same person. I mean my fiction is not about
me entering Hogwarts. I just like this name too much, so I
use it everywhere.. :)
Note 3: I have rated this 13 but I am not sure though.. It
does include drugs and smoking and WILL include slash.. but
everything is made for the plot. I have thought of a more
suitable way of writing it, without any slash or drugs, but it just seems to alter the story I wanna tell.. so it won't do..
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Terra had been on the internet for nearly 16 hours now,
she hadn't slept all night and was reading fan fiction about
Harry Potter. She just couldn't wait for the 5th book to come
out and spent all her time reading fan art or playing RPG's
on Hogwarts forums. Ever since she had discovered the books
she spent all her time reading and had a very weird sleeping
pattern. She would stay up for one day and one night, and the
next day too, when she would fall asleep
for two hours in the afternoon and wake up, and when night
came, she would sleep normally. So basically, whereas people
spent 24 hours as one day, she would live 48 hours as one
spends 24. Today she had to go to school in about one hour
and though she even despised the very thought, she knew she
had to go; since she had managed not to go the previous day
(and what followed had been one of the worst mother tantrums
ever). Her mother and father were abroad and she lived
with her grandmother for that year. She was in last year and
was supposed to go to college next year. The very thought
made her stomach ache.
She was standing in front of her computer, reading, when
she heard a tap on her window. She just kept reading, not
even realising it. The tapping was heard again. And again.
That time she stopped reading and listened. She heard it once
more. She didn't know whether or not to look towards the
window and just sat there, thinking. It couldn't be her cat
because her cat would've meowed. Was the sound even real? She
hoped it was something. Something "worth it", or
abnormal as others said.
She had hoped for that "something" ever since... ever
since she had been able to hope, actually... ever since she
had discovered hope.. at what age had that started? 2? 3? 5?
Again, as she thought of her past, she found herself unable
to understand how much time she had lived. Unable to
understand time. Unable to understand her age. What was she
like when she was two? or three? or last year for that
matter? She sighed. No. She would never be able to understand
time. Why, she couldn't even remember what she had done the
previous day. She had by now started to think she was
mentally disturbed. Her mother, had she known Terra's
thoughts, would've said it was due to her sleeping pattern.
Of course.
And there she was, hoping for excitement once more. But
if nothing happened... if her hope was pointless yet once
again.. she would get depressed. She would feel empty..
-disapointed to the highest. And then she would get angry
with herself.. for hoping... Because she just knew that her
disapointment came from the fact that she had hoped too
much.. for -impossible things. But then she heard the tapping
once again.
It couldn't hurt to look could it? Well, actually, it
could. It could hurt her so bad she would actually feel
stabbed. But what was that noise anyway? Wasn't she curious?
Indeed she was. She was very eager to find out what the noise
was. And apprehensive of course... because she was scared it
would be just something too normal. Like a branch twig. But
"the hell!" she thought. "I'm just gonna go look at what
makes the bloody noise and the hell with it if it is nothing
at all".
She looked at the window but it was dead dark. Sighing,
she got up and pulled back the curtains. She just stood
there. Whatever she was expecting, it most certainly wasn't
that. She just gaped at it.
*-----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----
*----*----*---- *----*----*
Finally she opened the window. And into the room came...
an owl. Terra looked at the tawny owl as it gave her an
'it-was-about-time look'. Terra swallowed and nodded. She
closed the window and sat in front of the owl. "Hello" she
said. "And who might you be? And more to the point, what are
you doing here?". Terra stroked the owl. She had never seen
one before but was to fond of animals to be afraid of any of
them. Then she noticed something attached to it's leg. "Not
something" she thought. She knew what it was. A piece of
parchment. Oh my!
"Just stay here while I read OK?" she said to the owl
softly, still looking at the parchment. She realised her
voice was no more than a hoarse whisper. She read the
parchment:
"Dear Miss Terra Aeris,
We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find
enclosed a list of all items you will need.
Term will start for you next year on September the
first. However, in order for you to draw level with other 5th
years, you will spend the rest of this year learning 4
year-worth of magic.
We await your owl no later then February the 13th.
Sincerely yours,
Deputy Headmistress
Professor McGonnagall."
Terra read the letter once, then twice, and again and
again... Thoughts began racing in her head. Was this
someone's idea of a joke? It most certainly seemed so. But
she had no real enemies so... who? Why? She had no real
friends either so who would know her this well? Who could
know she had longed for this very thing to happen to her? And
she read again. Who could've trained an owl to act like this?
Anger, hate, deception and doubt began rising, twirling in
her head. Deception she felt because she felt right now as if
her dream had been destroyed. She felt exposed to the painful
reality. There was no Hogwarts. But how could she not hope?
Why, how stop the
growing doubt that told her it could be for real? Why stop
it? It could be for real couldn't it? These confusing,
painful thoughts raced each other for the next days. But
still, logic gave up as hope grew stronger. She liked hope.
And in this moment of deep confusion, mental destabilization,
and utter bewilderment, all she had to keep her sane was
hope. So finally she believed it. One week and a half had
passed since the letter came and finally she believed it. And
not a single soul knew about the letter.
She decided to tell her mother. She called her on
Thursday night. The night she finally believed the letter.
"Mother, you just won't believe what happened"
And indeed she didn't.
"Have you been taking drugs?"
Oh god. Not this. Not now.
"yes mother. Of course. And I just thought, well, how
else can I show my mother how remarkably sane I am other then
by telling her I got into Hogwarts? And I was definitely so
high that it didn't even ocure to me that you might not
believe me." answered a really sarcastic Terra.
There was a silence.
And then her mother gasped.
"Hold on a minute"
"Sure thing" responded a highly annoyed Terra.
She lit up a cigarette while waiting for her mother.
"All right Terra, we will take you to London this
weekend. We'll be home tomorrow. You don't have to go to
school until we have sorted out if this is a stupid prank or
not"
Confusion, joy, euphoria, amazement, speechlessness, and
utter bewilderment and shock flowed past her as a cold
shower.
"R- Really?" she stuttered.
"Yes, and I have to hang up now. See you tomorrow. Send
your owl back to whoever wrote this letter to ask for more
information."
Terra hung up. She didn't need to ask for information
since she knew it all. But she did need for the address to
the Leaky Cauldron where her mother would be finally
convinced. She didn't pay much attention to the thought
rising in her head. What had made her mother give in so fast?
This wasn't normal Ms. Aeris behaviour at all. She looked at
the tawny owl whom she had kept since the day the letter
arrived.
"Do you have some parchment and a quill? All I have is
paper and a pen."
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The next day her parents came. They both looked very
anxious. Terra had been thinking about her mother's comment
all day. "Have you been taking drugs?". Terra was a 17
year-old girl who had indeed been taking drugs. Well, she had
previously in time. Refuge, escape, everything she didn't
have she had found there. Until, that is, she realised she
was wrong. She had found extremely overwhelming things with
drugs. But everything just seemed to end up in chaos. Her
feeling like a wreck, throwing up every single thing that
went down her throat... Even her pills, her drugs. And then
came the teachers. They had obviously figured things out.
They didn't act like it, and she didn't have any proof.
Still, she knew. They knew. And then, of coursen her parents
knew. They didn't act like it either but Terra was far from
stupid and those adults were far from carefull. Even when she
was extremely high, she understood them completely. But the
thing that made her stop was that she couldn't be high
everytime. And when she was 'sane', she would feel a wreck.
Afterwards, she began taking less drugs because everyone knew
and she just had to mislead them... make them think they were
wrong.. But she ended up growing reluctant to every single
drug.. They made her feel like throwing up. And she stopped.
Soweway, Terra thought she had grown up. Not as in a 'better'
person but as in a person that had changed and learned from
what she thought were her mistakes. And she felt better.
They were in the plane to London and Terra was sleeping
through it. When she woke up, they were already at the end of
the ride. Her mother and father were talking about work,
indiferent to the fact that their daughter was going off to
learn witchcraft. "Pathetic" Terra thought.
They went to the Leaky Cauldron and Terra quickly found
the bartender. When whe made him open the secret passage to
Diagon Alley, her father gasped whereas her mother just wore
a scowl.
They went to Gringotts first and Terra surprised
everyone when she recited off by heart:
"Enter stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For if you look beneath our walls
For a treasure that was never yours
You have been warned! Beware!
Of finding more than treasure there."
Terra just shrugged at the looks people gave her.
They went through their shoping easily and peacefully.
Terra bought a large amount of dress-robes and robes. They
even got her a broomstick since it was stated in her list
that she needed one.
Then, of course came the one thing she had been looking
forward to. Olivanders' shop of magical wands. After greeting
the owner and trying out a great amount of wands, she finally
walked out with a "holly, phoenix feather, 13 inche" wand.
"Very powerfull" had said M. Ollivanders.
They spent the night in the Leaky Cauldron. They slept
until breakfast. Strangely, Terra also slept. She was feeling
like she was back on the 'regular' sleeping pattern.
In the morning, they received another owl.
"Dear Miss Terra Aeris,
We inform you that your teacher is ready for you. You will
spend the whole remaining year under his care and he will
teach you all you need to know to be ready for your 5th year
at Hogwarts. Your teacher is M. Remus Lupin and he will be
meeting you in the Leaky Cauldron at 8 o'clock tonight.
yours sincerely,
Deputy Headmistress
Professor Mc Gonnagall."
Writer: Terra
Chapter one: The letter
Disclaimer: blah blah.. none of those are mine.. everything
belongs to J.K.Rowling except the characters I created.. and
I guess the plot..
Note: this is my first fan fic everyone!! Please read and
review!! Chapter one might be a tad boring.. I updated it
though! I wrote in everything I meant to write! please read!
This might be my first story but I assure you I have given a
lot of thought to the plot so it might as well be worth
reading (I hope)... Please feel free to write how you feel
since, even if you don't like it, I need to know how you
feel..
Note 2: though we share the same name, me and the character
Terra are not the same person. I mean my fiction is not about
me entering Hogwarts. I just like this name too much, so I
use it everywhere.. :)
Note 3: I have rated this 13 but I am not sure though.. It
does include drugs and smoking and WILL include slash.. but
everything is made for the plot. I have thought of a more
suitable way of writing it, without any slash or drugs, but it just seems to alter the story I wanna tell.. so it won't do..
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Terra had been on the internet for nearly 16 hours now,
she hadn't slept all night and was reading fan fiction about
Harry Potter. She just couldn't wait for the 5th book to come
out and spent all her time reading fan art or playing RPG's
on Hogwarts forums. Ever since she had discovered the books
she spent all her time reading and had a very weird sleeping
pattern. She would stay up for one day and one night, and the
next day too, when she would fall asleep
for two hours in the afternoon and wake up, and when night
came, she would sleep normally. So basically, whereas people
spent 24 hours as one day, she would live 48 hours as one
spends 24. Today she had to go to school in about one hour
and though she even despised the very thought, she knew she
had to go; since she had managed not to go the previous day
(and what followed had been one of the worst mother tantrums
ever). Her mother and father were abroad and she lived
with her grandmother for that year. She was in last year and
was supposed to go to college next year. The very thought
made her stomach ache.
She was standing in front of her computer, reading, when
she heard a tap on her window. She just kept reading, not
even realising it. The tapping was heard again. And again.
That time she stopped reading and listened. She heard it once
more. She didn't know whether or not to look towards the
window and just sat there, thinking. It couldn't be her cat
because her cat would've meowed. Was the sound even real? She
hoped it was something. Something "worth it", or
abnormal as others said.
She had hoped for that "something" ever since... ever
since she had been able to hope, actually... ever since she
had discovered hope.. at what age had that started? 2? 3? 5?
Again, as she thought of her past, she found herself unable
to understand how much time she had lived. Unable to
understand time. Unable to understand her age. What was she
like when she was two? or three? or last year for that
matter? She sighed. No. She would never be able to understand
time. Why, she couldn't even remember what she had done the
previous day. She had by now started to think she was
mentally disturbed. Her mother, had she known Terra's
thoughts, would've said it was due to her sleeping pattern.
Of course.
And there she was, hoping for excitement once more. But
if nothing happened... if her hope was pointless yet once
again.. she would get depressed. She would feel empty..
-disapointed to the highest. And then she would get angry
with herself.. for hoping... Because she just knew that her
disapointment came from the fact that she had hoped too
much.. for -impossible things. But then she heard the tapping
once again.
It couldn't hurt to look could it? Well, actually, it
could. It could hurt her so bad she would actually feel
stabbed. But what was that noise anyway? Wasn't she curious?
Indeed she was. She was very eager to find out what the noise
was. And apprehensive of course... because she was scared it
would be just something too normal. Like a branch twig. But
"the hell!" she thought. "I'm just gonna go look at what
makes the bloody noise and the hell with it if it is nothing
at all".
She looked at the window but it was dead dark. Sighing,
she got up and pulled back the curtains. She just stood
there. Whatever she was expecting, it most certainly wasn't
that. She just gaped at it.
*-----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----
*----*----*---- *----*----*
Finally she opened the window. And into the room came...
an owl. Terra looked at the tawny owl as it gave her an
'it-was-about-time look'. Terra swallowed and nodded. She
closed the window and sat in front of the owl. "Hello" she
said. "And who might you be? And more to the point, what are
you doing here?". Terra stroked the owl. She had never seen
one before but was to fond of animals to be afraid of any of
them. Then she noticed something attached to it's leg. "Not
something" she thought. She knew what it was. A piece of
parchment. Oh my!
"Just stay here while I read OK?" she said to the owl
softly, still looking at the parchment. She realised her
voice was no more than a hoarse whisper. She read the
parchment:
"Dear Miss Terra Aeris,
We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find
enclosed a list of all items you will need.
Term will start for you next year on September the
first. However, in order for you to draw level with other 5th
years, you will spend the rest of this year learning 4
year-worth of magic.
We await your owl no later then February the 13th.
Sincerely yours,
Deputy Headmistress
Professor McGonnagall."
Terra read the letter once, then twice, and again and
again... Thoughts began racing in her head. Was this
someone's idea of a joke? It most certainly seemed so. But
she had no real enemies so... who? Why? She had no real
friends either so who would know her this well? Who could
know she had longed for this very thing to happen to her? And
she read again. Who could've trained an owl to act like this?
Anger, hate, deception and doubt began rising, twirling in
her head. Deception she felt because she felt right now as if
her dream had been destroyed. She felt exposed to the painful
reality. There was no Hogwarts. But how could she not hope?
Why, how stop the
growing doubt that told her it could be for real? Why stop
it? It could be for real couldn't it? These confusing,
painful thoughts raced each other for the next days. But
still, logic gave up as hope grew stronger. She liked hope.
And in this moment of deep confusion, mental destabilization,
and utter bewilderment, all she had to keep her sane was
hope. So finally she believed it. One week and a half had
passed since the letter came and finally she believed it. And
not a single soul knew about the letter.
She decided to tell her mother. She called her on
Thursday night. The night she finally believed the letter.
"Mother, you just won't believe what happened"
And indeed she didn't.
"Have you been taking drugs?"
Oh god. Not this. Not now.
"yes mother. Of course. And I just thought, well, how
else can I show my mother how remarkably sane I am other then
by telling her I got into Hogwarts? And I was definitely so
high that it didn't even ocure to me that you might not
believe me." answered a really sarcastic Terra.
There was a silence.
And then her mother gasped.
"Hold on a minute"
"Sure thing" responded a highly annoyed Terra.
She lit up a cigarette while waiting for her mother.
"All right Terra, we will take you to London this
weekend. We'll be home tomorrow. You don't have to go to
school until we have sorted out if this is a stupid prank or
not"
Confusion, joy, euphoria, amazement, speechlessness, and
utter bewilderment and shock flowed past her as a cold
shower.
"R- Really?" she stuttered.
"Yes, and I have to hang up now. See you tomorrow. Send
your owl back to whoever wrote this letter to ask for more
information."
Terra hung up. She didn't need to ask for information
since she knew it all. But she did need for the address to
the Leaky Cauldron where her mother would be finally
convinced. She didn't pay much attention to the thought
rising in her head. What had made her mother give in so fast?
This wasn't normal Ms. Aeris behaviour at all. She looked at
the tawny owl whom she had kept since the day the letter
arrived.
"Do you have some parchment and a quill? All I have is
paper and a pen."
*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*----*
----*----*---- *----*----*----*
The next day her parents came. They both looked very
anxious. Terra had been thinking about her mother's comment
all day. "Have you been taking drugs?". Terra was a 17
year-old girl who had indeed been taking drugs. Well, she had
previously in time. Refuge, escape, everything she didn't
have she had found there. Until, that is, she realised she
was wrong. She had found extremely overwhelming things with
drugs. But everything just seemed to end up in chaos. Her
feeling like a wreck, throwing up every single thing that
went down her throat... Even her pills, her drugs. And then
came the teachers. They had obviously figured things out.
They didn't act like it, and she didn't have any proof.
Still, she knew. They knew. And then, of coursen her parents
knew. They didn't act like it either but Terra was far from
stupid and those adults were far from carefull. Even when she
was extremely high, she understood them completely. But the
thing that made her stop was that she couldn't be high
everytime. And when she was 'sane', she would feel a wreck.
Afterwards, she began taking less drugs because everyone knew
and she just had to mislead them... make them think they were
wrong.. But she ended up growing reluctant to every single
drug.. They made her feel like throwing up. And she stopped.
Soweway, Terra thought she had grown up. Not as in a 'better'
person but as in a person that had changed and learned from
what she thought were her mistakes. And she felt better.
They were in the plane to London and Terra was sleeping
through it. When she woke up, they were already at the end of
the ride. Her mother and father were talking about work,
indiferent to the fact that their daughter was going off to
learn witchcraft. "Pathetic" Terra thought.
They went to the Leaky Cauldron and Terra quickly found
the bartender. When whe made him open the secret passage to
Diagon Alley, her father gasped whereas her mother just wore
a scowl.
They went to Gringotts first and Terra surprised
everyone when she recited off by heart:
"Enter stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed
For if you look beneath our walls
For a treasure that was never yours
You have been warned! Beware!
Of finding more than treasure there."
Terra just shrugged at the looks people gave her.
They went through their shoping easily and peacefully.
Terra bought a large amount of dress-robes and robes. They
even got her a broomstick since it was stated in her list
that she needed one.
Then, of course came the one thing she had been looking
forward to. Olivanders' shop of magical wands. After greeting
the owner and trying out a great amount of wands, she finally
walked out with a "holly, phoenix feather, 13 inche" wand.
"Very powerfull" had said M. Ollivanders.
They spent the night in the Leaky Cauldron. They slept
until breakfast. Strangely, Terra also slept. She was feeling
like she was back on the 'regular' sleeping pattern.
In the morning, they received another owl.
"Dear Miss Terra Aeris,
We inform you that your teacher is ready for you. You will
spend the whole remaining year under his care and he will
teach you all you need to know to be ready for your 5th year
at Hogwarts. Your teacher is M. Remus Lupin and he will be
meeting you in the Leaky Cauldron at 8 o'clock tonight.
yours sincerely,
Deputy Headmistress
Professor Mc Gonnagall."