Prologue
Hi! My name is Albus, Albus S Potter. I was born into a family of not only the boy who lived but also connected to the Weasley which was one of the most prestigious families in the wizardry world. My Dad is Harry Potter he works as the head of auror department. My mom is a quidditch journalist. On the first glance they looked like an average successful couple. But there was more...
On my 6th birthday I remember it distinctively as they did what England dreamed about for years, beating Ireland and winning the cup. Pictures of my parents were put all over newspapers, magazine etc. They were called the hero of the field as well as the war, as My dad had caught the snitch in a neat 15 minutes time while my mum scored an amazing total of 50 points in just 15 minutes.
After that things were never the same... Lily became a quidditch strategist and was now on her 5th year. Her talent was quite well used as due to her Gryffindor got some decent wins.
James had dropped after his 5th year and was now a well established player for an Irish team.
And there was me... I Albus. What do you expect a amazing talented star who hides his true talent ? Hah! I not only was not some pro but I hated the game altogether. Why? Because what it caused my dad... He permanently had his arm disfigured and had it wrapped in bandages for life...
However my hate for this game was different, While my Cousin Rose hated it for the lack of proper education profit in watching it. I hated it for one reason – envy...
I detested those who could fly with no problems in life. I was all but a person who studied hard and got scores to please my mum then I would get a normal job and then lead a normal life...
But fate play's a strange game in my life as always...
However before I talk about fate and other gibberish shit let me tell you about myself, ahem, facts about my life – I am a complete loser with no girlfriend up until now and often get bullied. The Slytherin bully Scorpius hates me and her girlfriend my cousin Rose tried to stop Scorpius from bullying me. And another fact – I had an IQ of 133. In short I was a genius in anything I do because I looked alternatively, avoided problems but when I solved it I did in the fastest and simplest manner. in short you could say while I was a outstanding student I would probably last longer in a zombie apocalypse as the strategist on the resistance group. Not that it could happen really. Note, I did not say never there may be such a case... Anyway I do have a healthy imagination.
My sister Lily too had a IQ of 125+ but it was lower then me. Not by much but still lower which often caused her to be pissed.
Family aside I actually make a great Ravenclaw because I was smart but instead I ended up in Hufflepuff. It was quite a shocker because basically I usually was unfriendly and the always pissed kind of a guy but I was the type who would have an aim and then work on it like hell. Aka toil.
Quidditch always played a role in my life. Even if I did not play it I managed to create my broom. Yes! Create one that can rival the firebolt v2's plain monstrous raw speed and also comparable to some of those easy comfort and grip ones made up one of them Irish company. Though I made only 4 of them one each for my family which was actually purely out of boredom it grew famous when my Dad used it in a ministry game.
Maybe if I could try that for a career hm...
But for now I was stuck in the mud where commoners belonged. A place where we could only see our dreams fly as we watch the few lucky perfect people fly...
There was many things that made me what I am, first of all I had fellow losers for friends – First of all my best mate Frank Woods. He is cooler than the rest of my group and the only one in Hufflepuff who stands up to bully. He actually is the son of Oliver woods who had also played as keeper on that day England won. However the poor bloke could never be compared to his father or genius sister because unlike them he chose to play as a chaser. Second in my mates list was Derek Finnigan and Eddy Thomas. Being sons of best friends they were more better described as twins. Both were armature beaters and had the talent for good teamwork however they were quite behind the individual brilliance of the Gryffindor betters Fred and Roxanne Weasley and the other beaters.
Now basically I was the only quidditch hating guy in my family and my little friend group but hell I could not even try flying. Why?
I was afraid of heights...
Right now I am sure that you are like 'PATHETIC!"
But hell this is my story, My story of how I overcame my fear, my envy and transformed from a idiot who could not fly a broom for Merlin's sake to a... Legend.
The Legend who went by the name of his custom made brooms the Hawkwind...
AN: Hi! This is my first fan fiction so please review. My grammar is awful I know but I am trying my best. Also the plot is original and not some copy since I spend a lot of time thinking about it. My vacations are running right now, I passed high school going to Collage within 1 and a half month so expect quick updates! Finally I am going to name each chapter as XXX like a boss!
CHAPTER 1: Partying in the ministry like a boss
"Seriously, if just one more guy comes up and talk about my owl results I am going to blast them to oblivion" Frank Woods my best mate exclaimed
"Aren't you a bit too hyper?" I said as I sat down on a seat next to him
Frank pretended not to hear me as he continued talking about how bored he was right now to my other mates Derek Finnigan and Eddy Thomas.
I sighed as both Derek and Eddy joined his ranting.
"I bet you are having your time of your life" Derek said in a disgusted tone.
"Excuse me? Not everyone likes going to a party where all you do is get drunk" I said as I gave them a annoyed look.
They looked horrified. However before they could say anything help arrived in the form of my mum.
"Al, you remember Anna from Holyhead harpies ?" referring to her old teammate smiling behind her.
"Yes I do, are you keeping well Miss Anna?"
"Yes I am Al and how did your O.W.L.S go?"
I smirked as I saw Frank give me 'give me the signal and I got your back' sign. Thing is, Frank and I have been hanging around since we were 5 years old and right now we had our own secret code language.
After a short time talking with Anna and mum then went off to talk to some more old teammates. As soon as they were gone Derek, Eddy and Frank almost pulled me outside of the hall.
Right now we were in a ministry ball. Since all of us had influential parents we were always invited to such parties.
While I grew used to them. Frank and others hated it.
"Alright now we are outside. What do you even want to do?" I said
"I don't know, get drunk or something?" Eddy said in a thoroughly uninterested tone.
I was about to argue but Derek cut me off
"Oh no we can't, we can't have perfect Albus drunk now can we?"
"For your kind information, I don't drink anyway"
"Ah yes I forgot Albus doesn't know how to live" Eddy said as if he figured out the meaning of life.
I sighed, always this conversation about that I don't know how to live.
"So what I don't drink, smoke nor Do I drink anything with caffeine and I am a vegan and would prefer not to just go out and shag some bimbo"
Frank sighed, "I get most of the part but seriously no bacon?"
"Yeah, I actually love animals as well"
"People like you are the root of deforestation" Eddy said as he accused he like one of them detectives in those muggle black and white movies.
"Root to deforestation? how ironic" Derek said
I rolled my eyes , "You expect me to go to a forest with a axe and chomp a tree down them down and eat it?"
"And then burp and say that was good" Derek said as he grinned
"And for your information we don't go into a jungle with a bow and arrow and then kill a pig or two and roast it up." Frank said
"So we are neutral now aren't we?" Derek said as he continued to grin
"Why are we even talking about deforestation?" Eddy said
"What would you like to talk about?" Frank said as he glanced his clock
"I don't know, maybe about 6th year?" I said
We were sitting out side the party in the cold streets but hell that was more fun than inside
"Not you too" Frank said in a disgusted tone.
"actually I have an idea" Eddy said with a definitely evil smile on him.
"If it is a bet or some stupid bucket list or something forget about it" I said not bothering to even look at him
"But why?" Eddy defended
"It's overdone, think of something else to spice 6th year up" Derek said
"Like what?" I said
"I don't know. Lets think of something"
We spend the next 5 minutes trying to figure out something. Occasionally Derek and Eddy came up with useless ideas like taking over the world and finding world peace.
"I got nothing." Derek said as he yawned
"Me neither" Eddy nodded
"You?" Frank said as everyone looked at me
"How about who gets most in Potions-"
"NO WAY!" They all yelled
I sighed
"I rather run a chicken farm then study for potion!" Frank said as everyone nodded.
"Lets just go back we can think of something inside" I said
"Its nice out here" Eddy complained
"Al why do you even like these parties?" Derek wailed
"Hm... No comment" I said
"That isn't even a reply dammit!" Eddy roared
"Gee, I am kinda thirsty now lets just go inside" Frank said
"Fine Derek you-" Eddy began
"Yeah I need some of that pudding too" Derek added
"Eh tu Derek?"
I sighed, Eddy was the always hyper one in our group and for some reason loved running around and being outside. He was after all a natural Hufflepuff.
"In times like this, men, we follow majorities rules" Frank said as he trusted his hands in the air.
"You mean times when your decision is the same as majority decision" Eddy asked as we were walking back to the party
"Well actually yes" Frank not even bothering to sugarcoat it.
For the next 5 minutes we walked in silence back to the party
"Alright, what is our game plan?" Frank said as he suddenly stopped right in front of the entrance
"Game plan?" I asked while raising my eyebrow
"Alright, Derek and me will storm the front while you use the hostage to keep any hostiles away use him as a bait only when situation turns ugly. Follow this and we will be safe with the pudding all ready to be devoured" Eddy said in a extremely serous tone
Frank and Derek nodded as I looked confused
"Alright you lost me there, what hostage? And what hostiles?" I asked
"Al this will hurt you more than it hurts me" Derek said as everyone took a step closer to me
"W-W-What?"
Their eyes seemed to shine with a bright red light
And that is when things got weird of should I say embarrassing?
Consider what ever you think when you are pulled by your best mate as he runs towards the dinning hall as he shouts "Alpha is in position!" and your other mates shouts back "This is bravo requesting immediate support!" Oh yeah all this is happening in your Dad's office...
Finally someone came to stop them or should I say hostiles?
"Frank what are you doing?" Jessica or Jess Frank's elder sister said quite embarrassed by her brothers act.
"Shit hostiles!" Frank as he pushed and I tripped over a low lying chair and fell down
"Al all you alright?" Jess said as she rushed to help me up.
"I-I-I am' I said as I massaged my head to relive the pain.
"Frank what the hell were you thinking?" Jess roared at his brother
"I-I-I was improvising!"
"Improvising?" Jess said
"They were trying to get to the dinning hall without being asked about their O.W.L results" I said
"Traitor!" Derek said
"When was I even a part of your group" I said as I rolled my eyes
"Anything going on here?" someone said
"Yes a lot" Jess said as she turned to face whoever was speaking
But instead all she did was gasp as she saw him
"James! When did you come back from Ireland?" Jess said as she hugged James who chuckled
"Easy love, I got back yesterday" He said as he grinned
James kissed Jess. While Frank and I turned away.
"Um.. PDA" Frank said as he said in a disgusted tone
"Personal digital assistant?" Jess said
Man this girl was even a bigger blood traitor than me, she spend all day with this new muggle technological stuff. It was no surprise she knew about these muggle stuff.
"I believe he meant Public display of affection" I said as I faked a cough
Jess blushed as she let go off James.
James however laughed it off.
After a short while of Jess's lecture James and I walked towards the bar while the rest of them went ahead to the dinning hall.
"So Al how many subjects did you get 0s in your O.W.L.S?" James asked
"All" I said not quite interested in the same topic I was talking about all day
James look at me in shock as his mouth fell open
"A-A-All?" he said
"Yeah" I nodded
"Damn Al, Mum said you did great bur did not really expect it to be that good" James said
"I didn't expect your reaction to be like that as well" I said
'What do you mean?" he said
"James I have been getting that response all that from every one, your the fun loving one of our family. I expected you to laugh it off"
He gulped
"Al, I made quite a few mistakes in my life"
"Mistakes?"
"I gave up my studies in my 5th just to fly around"
"Fly around? You mean Quidditch! And your bloody amazing at it too!" I said hoping that my brother who for reason was down would cheer up.
"Al, Dad wanted me to be an auror"
"An auror?"
"I let him down" he whispered
"No you did not!" I yelled
"Al, you know why I joined an Irish team and not a British team? Because I did not want to face him!"
"Whom?"
"Dad" he said as I fell silent
"Why are you telling me all of this now?"
"I wanted you to make a promise"
"about what?"
"That you will never consider quidditch as a career!"
"Of course, I was not really planning to do that anyway"
"Good and also since I was a failure remember-"
"Who's a failure?" A female voice interpreted James
Both of us turned to face our sister Lily holding a empty glass which she dropped the glass as she ran to hug James
"James when did you arrive?"
Right now I was more bothered by what she was drinking...
"Yesterday" He said as he smiled at her
"Then why didn't you come yesterday?"
"Come to think of it, yeah why didn't you come earlier?" I asked
James sighed, "I had to meet someone"
"Who" Lily asked
"Drop it Lily, I need to go find Mum and Dad too" He said as he rushed away
"Gee, he looks changed doesn't he?" Lily said
"Yeah, for reason I can't even recognize him" I said as I watched my brother walk away
Soon Lily and I joined the others in the Dinning hall.
Jess was talking to Rose who greeted me and Lily as she saw us. Derek and Eddy were all done eating and complaining and playing explosive snaps and Frank was watching them play.
Normally I would have joined them but now I had to sit with Rose. Since this was a small pact we had since our very first ministry party in our 1st year. As I sat down next to her, I noticed the blonde boy siting right next to me.
"Scorpius?" I said in a uncertain tune
"So got all 0s huh?"
"Y-Y-Yeah" I said quite uncertain to say anything else
He however remained bored as ever as he yawned.
"Scorpius, what did I tell you?" Rose glared at her boyfriend as he sighed
"Potter I am sorry for the trouble I caused you all these years" He said still not bothering to turn and face me.
"So you want something don't you?" I said
"How did you know?" Both He and Rose said
"Lucky guess" I said
Scorpius had not really believed me but Rose continued
"Well it's selfish of us to ask but we need you to tutor someone at Muggle studies"
I sighed, "Who?"
"My cousin Alice Greengrass" Scorpius said
Before I could reply Rose had seen someone and was calling that someone.
"Alice! Alice! Over here!" she said as she waved her hands in the air
The girl had long black hair tied in a ponytail and appeared as pale as Scorpius was. She was wearing a cocktail red dress.
"Hello" she said as she stretched out her hands
I shock it.
"Albus Potter" I said
"Alice Greengrass, pleasure to make your acquaintance"
She looked quite beautiful with her dark hair and blue eyes.
"I hear you did quite well in your O.W.L.S Albus"
"Yeah" I said
Seriously will people stop asking me about my O.W.L.S for once?
I noticed Scorpius and Rose had left probably to... nope can't think about it. This is will inflict my brain with some disturbing mental images.
"So why did a Slytherin such as yourself take Muggle studies?" I asked
She seemed slightly angry over my comment which I regretted
"I believe considering all of us Slytherin as critical to muggles is a stereotype "
"Not really since I never saw one Slytherin student in the Muggle studies in all my school years"
"Well then I am special, does that answer your question?"
I shrugged, "Guess it does"
"Good" she said as she folded her arms
"Hey Al where were you?" Frank said as he came through a hallway and saw me.
"Oh, am I interrupting something?"
"Not at all" Alice said as she was about to leave
"So how about we meet in the Library twice a week?"
"Sure no problem" I said as I watch her leave
However before she left, she whispered in my ear which send shivers down my body
"Don't tell anyone in Slytherin about this"
As soon as she left Frank started his interrogation
"Spill" He said with a face which could make a terrorist start talking
I gulped
"Nothing just Rose made me tutor her for Muggle studies"
"Alice Greengrass? The Slytherin princess and Muggle studies?"
"Yeah, I was shocked too" I said as we too left the dinning hall and made our way to the others
"Al did you accept?" Rose asked as she saw me
I nodded
"See Scorpius I told he would didn't I?" Rose said the blonde boy in question just shrugged
"Oh so now you are accepting offers from a Slytherin are you Al?" Frank said. He glared at Scorpius
"It wasn't a deal it was a favour" Rose said as she tried to pull back Scorpius
"Oh yeah, I don't remember you doing Al any favours"
"Frank come on he's not worth it" I said
Frank was still angry but he walked off with me
"Why do you let your cousin and her douche boyfriend push you around?" He said
I turned away not facing him like the coward I am,
"She is my cousin Frank"
"What kind of cousin lets her boyfriend do this kind of thing"
"Look Frank, I know you are sticking up for me but drop it"
"Why Al are you going let them push you around everywhere?" He asked as his eyes seemed to almost blaze.
"Frank drop it"
He sighed, "honestly Al" He said but thankfully stopped talking about it.
"Where were you? We we were looking for you guys" Eddy said as He and Derek joined us.
"Not important, where were you two?' Frank said as he folded his arms
"Nothing man, just Eddy was hitting on this girl earlier, you know?" Derek said as he seemed utterly bored.
"There is no reason to tell him that" Eddy said as he scowled at Derek
"Everything is normal then" Frank said as we all nodded while Eddy continued to scowl.
"Hey what time is it?' I asked as I let out a yawn while we left out party and were going to the muggle parking lot.
"Its 3:00 am"
"Damn, I am going to miss my flight tomorrow" Derek panicked as he tried to find his car keys.
"Why do you even need to go back to US? School starts next week" I asked
"Got to meet my family, you know? We have these family reunions every once in a year"
Derek had this habit of saying 'you know?' all the time.
I nodded. For someone who has a blood reunion every freaking week, I perfectly understand Derek's position.
Derek was from US. He was not really a transfer student. The only magic academy that was in the same level as Hogwarts was Salem but that was a witch exclusive only.
Since his father was from England he came to study here.
"See you later guys and control your hormones Edwards!" he said as he drove off the parking lot mocking Eddy about his full name and his playboy attitude
Damn Derek just scored a double kill... its a muggle term used in video games...
"Don't call be by my full name ever!" Eddy shouted as Frank and I chuckled.
"So what now?" Eddy said as he sat down on a bench across the parking lot.
"Well, I am leaving soon as well" I said
"Ah, you must research on how to teach Hogwarts students muggle studies" Frank said
"I almost forgot about the deal with Alice" I admitted as I yawned lazily
"Um what Alice?" Eddy said as he looked confused
Oh right he hadn't figured it out yet
"Alice Greengrass, Al is going to tutor her on muggle studies" Frank said
"Nice Al, Alice is quite hot" Eddy said as punched me on my shoulder
"Seriously? You really should stop being a jerk, she is younger than me"
"By a year not much" Eddy said as Frank nodded
"Plus her 5th years are up so you are going to spend a lot of time tutoring her" Frank added
Why the hell is Frank on Eddy's side?
"Valid point there Frank!" Eddy said happily
A small alarm ringed off as Eddy shut it down on his phone.
"It's 3:15, Lets head back"
When we got there everyone was already leaving. Eddy rushed out when we got there as he figured his family had already gone. James was staying over at Jess's apartment. While Frank's parents were at Australia So Frank was staying over.
It was a quite drive back to our house in Godric's hollow.
And I said quite as in mum talking non-stop about some famous people she met while Lily was on her phone the whole time.
Women! I tell you they never shut up!
By 6 am in the morning we finally reached home. Lily ran off to hug her little Corgi puppy Aka Wikipedia which acted like a child away from a mother without Lily around.
I actually named that dog. While it was Lily's dog I suggested it be named after the muggle website I learned in muggle studies.
"Get some sleep boys, we are visiting Diagon Alley tomorrow" Mum said as we nodded too sleepy to protest.
As I entered my room I noticed there was a card which was on my bed.
My room was actually shared by me and James up until he sent off last year. He had quite a good name in quidditch as a seeker. Dad was quite proud of him. I seriously don't know why he thought he made a wrong decision.
There was two beds here one mine and one which used to be James.
Frank now had already fallen asleep.
I sighed as I opened the letter.
AL,
Sorry that I could not tell you everything and actually not even talk to you much. I wanted to talk you tonight. But I figured you would need some sleep today so I dropped off at Jess. I want to talk to you Al. Meet me just outside Diagon Alley in muggle London.
James
I reread the letter again and again as I tried to sleep. What did he want to tell me? There was obliviously more than simply being unhappy about simply not being a auror.
END