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Amber Potter and the Traitor Within.
Blurb …
Follow the antics of 11-year-old cousins, Amber-Leigh Potter and Rosemary Weasley, during their years at out what happens when you mix an evil plot, a kitchen full of food, a map, a certain invisibility cloak and two girls who want to be exactly like their parents. :SU Written before DH came out OC-NextGen:
CHAPTER ONE: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
"MUM! Rose is trying to put make-up on me!"
"Shut up! You asked me to!"
"I asked you to make me look pretty - not to put make-up junk on me!"
"If it helps, I think you look pretty Amber-"
"Shut up Daphne! This is none of your business!"
"I was just trying to help!"
"Well don't!"
"Oh shut up."
"You shut up!"
"No, you!"
"How about you all shut up over there?"
"How would you like me to put this make-up on your face Andy-Pandy?"
"I told you to never call me that!"
"Andy-Pandy! Andy-Pandy! Andy-P-"
"All of you shut up right now! Do you hear me? I know you're excited about you're father coming home, but that's no reason to annoy each other! Now be quiet!"
"But-"
"I SAID BE QUIET!"
Mrs Ginny Potter sighed, and listened to her four children start up again in the lounge. Why did she decide to have four children? Two would have been enough. At least when Harry got back, he would be able to help out again. The kids loved their father and lets face it - Harry wasn't you're normal dad.
Well, neither was Ginny's entire family. All of them were witches and wizards, right down to her Granddad and back. Except for someone who was apparently her mother's second cousin, who was an accountant, but she had never seen, nor heard of him before, so he didn't count.
Ginny's husband of 16 years had gone away with his best friend, and also Ginny's brother, Ron Weasley, to Romania for some work thing. They were both Auror's at the ministry and even though he had gotten rid of Voldemort 18 year's ago - there were still Death-Eaters that needed to be captured. They had been there for 3 months now and were finally coming back home.
However, if Ginny was excited to see Harry again, it was nothing compared to how the children were.
Her eldest two, 14-year-old twins, Rose and Daphne, were fluttering around, their long red hair waving behind them as they tried to find lip gloss or hair clips or something. Well at least Rose was. She was a typical girl, while Daphne played Quidditch day in day out.
The next oldest was 13-year-old Andy who wasn't bothered at all, and was currently polishing his broom on the couch.
The youngest, 11-year-old Amber-Leigh (Amber for short) was franticly trying to make herself look pretty for her dad, trying to pin back her long black hair so it wouldn't fall into her brown eyes. Only now she was apparently complaining about the make-up Rose was trying to put on her. Amber may be girly, but when it comes to make-up … well, she's like Daphne - a complete tomboy.
Suddenly, the front door opened and the outline of Harry Potter stood in the doorframe.
"So?" He yelled "You going to say hi to your dad, or are you going to just stand there and look at me? Even though I am pretty good looking … "
"DAD!" Amber screamed and hurtled herself at Harry, who swooped her around and commented on how he liked her new bracelets.
"Thanks, mum got them for me!"
"Hi, dad!" Rose said and hugged her father.
"Hey! Have fun in Romania?" Daphne asked, also hugging him.
"Yes I did, thank you very much! How's my Andy, eh?" Harry said, laughing as he hugged his only son.
"Fine dad. Hey, can I have a friend over?" Andy asked.
"What kind of greeting is that?" Harry said, though he was still smiling. "You'll have to ask your mother - where is she?"
"In the kitchen I think."
Harry walked into the kitchen, to see his wife standing there, smiling and her arms wide open, as if to hug something invisible.
"Well? Are you going to come here, or do I have to come to you?" She asked, laughing.
Harry laughed with her and ran to his wife, picking her up and whirling her around, kissing her.
"So how was life here without me? I bet it was boring wasn't it?" Harry asked.
Ginny laughed again and poured them both a cup of tea.
"Oh, no, it was really quiet," Ginny said sarcastically. "All the children were well behaved and didn't fight at all. In fact, they were little angels!"
"Sure they were, Ginny. So is the whole lot coming to dinner tonight?" Harry asked. By the whole lot, he meant the Weasley's and other various relatives.
"I think so. Charlie's coming via the fireplace and Bill and Fleur are coming with their daughter and son. Fred and Angelina are coming with little Jamie, but George said he couldn't make it - his wife is in the hospital having her second baby." Ginny said.
"Really? Things have changed around here! So hows Amber and Rosie? Still excited about finally getting to go to Hogwarts?" Harry asked. Amber and her cousin Rosemary Weasley had both turned 11 in April and were literary bouncing off the walls. When they got to Diagon Alley, they squealed with delight and wanted to go everywhere. What they were going to be like at Hogwarts, was anyone's guess.
"Excited? Talk about the under-statement of the year! They're possessed! Anything not to do with Hogwarts is out of their radar! They keep saying that they want to be like you and their uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione when you were at Hogwarts." Ginny said.
"Do they now?" Harry said, interested. "Well who wouldn't want to be like the Amazing Harry Potter?
"They only ever called you have in Witch Weekly, Harry. Honestly, sometimes, you act as if you're still at school."
"Well, you know Hogwarts was the best 7 years of my life. Even though it might have included some things I would had rather have left out." Harry said, thoughtfully.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang.
"Oh, Merlin - Ron and Hermione must already be here!" Ginny jumped up from her seat as though electrocuted and ran off to answer the door.
This is going to be one heck of a dinner, Harry thought at the screams and shouts of the now 7 children, coming from the lounge.
"Harry!" Hermione screamed when she saw him and hugged him tightly. "How was Romania?" she asked.
"Riveting." Harry said. And indeed it was - Harry and Ron somehow managed to capture six Death-Eaters while Ron had had a concussion, and Harry was under a spell, so he was singing all the incantations.
"Oh Merlin, Amber! I tried on my Hogwarts robes today! I look so grown-up in them! Oh, it's going to be so cool at Hogwarts!" Rosemary screamed the moment she saw Amber.
"Neat Rosie! I got a new kitten to take with me! I named her Elli! Can you believe that we're going tomorrow?" Amber shouted. "Do you wana go see her?"
"Of corse!" Rosemary yelled and the two dashed up the stairs.
"Nice to see everyone getting settled in." Hermione laughed as Ginny hugged her brother. Indeed, Andy and his best friend, his cousin Joshua, were going outside to play a game of Quidditch and Ron and Hermione's oldest, 15-year-old boy Zachary and Hogwarts' newest prefect, went with Rose and Daphne to watch the Andy and Joshua play.
The foursome sat down on the couch as Ron conjured up some tea and biscuits. Hermione poured everyone a drink and grabbed a biscuit.
"So. Off to Hogwarts tomorrow. I can't believe my last baby is going to Hogwarts." Hermione said, getting slightly teary-eyed.
"Don't worry Hermione, they'll be back for Christmas." Ron told his wife.
"I can't believe how much Rosie and Amber want to be like us though! Just last night, Rosie was saying how she needed to take a crash helmet with her. I asked why and she said it was for when they were going to take on the whomping willow! You shouldn't have told them that story, Harry." Hermione said.
"Geez, at this rate, they'll be expelled before Hallowe'en!" Ron said. "Only joking." He added hastily at Hermione's look.
"Yeah, pretty soon, they will be battling trolls, getting petrified, let loose in the Forbidden Forest and raging a war against the teachers!" Harry laughed.
"Merlin, let's hope not." Ginny said, grabbing a second biscuit.
"Can you believe it? It's been 25 years since we meet." Hermione said
"You've been keeping count?" Ron asked in disbelief.
"Of course." Was Hermione's reply.
"With the amount of trouble they get into, Filch will skin them alive - if he gets the chance! Not that he will, he's got to be, what? 50? 60?" Ron said and they all laughed.
"Don't worry. No matter how many detentions they get themselves into, no matter how many time's they end up in the Hospital Wing, they'll love every minute there - no matter what happens." Harry said, pulling out a photo, a photo of himself, Ron and Hermione during their 6th year. They were laughing with their arms around each other and looked as if they were normal 16-year-old teenagers without a care in the world.
"It'll be the time of their lives." Harry muttered, looking at the photograph, smiling.
"Oh Rosie! This is going to be the greatest thing ever to happen to me!" Amber said gleefully, jumping up and down on her bed while Rosemary patted Elli on the floor.
"Oh I know!" she said, leaping up from the ground. "It's going to be the best!"
"We have to do everything! Go to the Chamber of Secrets, visit Hagrid, take on a basilisk and an arocomontula! We need to go to Hogsmede, sneak into the kitchens, rage war against the teachers - EVERYTHING!" Amber yelled, her voice steadily getting faster and faster and eventually screaming the last word.
"Calm down! We can't do everything, you're dad killed the basilisk remember? And the arocomontula died. And you need to be a parslemouth to get inside the Chamber of Secrets." Rosemary reminded her.
"Oh yeah," Amber said, thinking. "But we can do everything else!"
"Yeah! Everything!" Rosemary yelled
"Everything!" Amber yelled, then slipped on her bed and fell on top of Rosemary. Laughing, Amber pulled herself up from the floor
This is going to be brilliant! No longer do I have to live though other people's memories, I get to make my own! She thought. I can't wait until tomorrow!
Little did Amber and Rosemary know that this was just the beginning of a very big adventure. An adventure at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A/N: Update: 13/07/11: Ahem. So. Yes, i am aware that this story is complete and utter crap. There's no getting around it, this story is simply shocking. I could put it down to a silly 15-year-old who was still learning, but the truth is that i simply sucked at writing back then.
If i'm being truely honest with myself, however, i simply don't have the heart to delete this story. There was a point roughly four years ago when i thought this story was the beez kneez. So i'm keeping it to remind myself how far i've come in writing.
I do not expect anyone to suffer through this. I'm serious, you will actually lose half your brain cells.
Thank you for reading.
Until next time-
-Moon. : D