So this is my new series for Harry Potter, which I do not own (just slip in a disclaimer there). It was called Glowing Sapphires, it's now The Rosenwald Family.
I've only just started the second one, but with assignments and Uni I am unsure as to when it will be completed, proof read and therefore able for publishing.
Write me reviews, tell me what you think, apart from spelling and grammar because I'll make those mistakes. It doesn't matter how many time I read through it, I always miss some. But tell me where you think it's going, make predictions, might give me some ideas. I have a plan, thanks to The Unbreakable Series I'm more prepared.
I hope you enjoy it. The first 13 and a half chapters are all original, not book copied. There are quite a bit of original parts however it does follow the books, Mostly canon with a few changes here and there.
But hope you enjoy it! I think it's cute and interesting!
Chapter 1:
The skies were a dull grey and little clouds littered the vast open air. The sun was rising into the sky, leaving hints of colour across the vast openness in oranges and pinks along the horizon.
A large house sat atop of an open field, extensive gardens littered the front, hedges along the front fence and beside the arched driveway, while the back gardens followed on from a patio. The flowers from the back garden, consisting of roses, chrysanthemums, poppies, lilies, tulips, hydrangeas, gardenias and other foliage. Amongst these were a few plants that moved without the wind, swaying unnaturally, as well as others none had ever seen before. The flowers began to open first as the sun hit them and some of the plants reached up to get the first rays of heat.
The house was quiet as it was still early however movement could be seen within one of the larger windows on the bottom floor. Between it's windowpanes, to any looking in, they would have spotted the face of a small nine year old girl. Her hair was auburn and her eyes were a bright blue, her skin pale against the reddish tinted hair. Her bright eyes scanned the skies as they brightened from the sun that rose beyond them. She still wore her pyjama's which were a light blue colour.
"Miss Skylar," the girl turned, her curls flinging with the sudden movement, to find a small creature, a little shorter than herself, with a large head, wide brown eyes and very large ears that resembled that of a bat. "Why is Miss Skylar awake so early?" it asked.
"Nick get's his letter today. The sooner he leaves, the sooner I get to go." Skylar responded as she looked back at the sky, searching for something.
"Miss Skylar has always been excited to begin, yes." the elf nodded, bowing slightly. "I'll make Miss Skylar some breakfast."
"Thanks Midori." Skylar said before she sat back on the cushions of the window ledge and watched the skies, patiently, but expectantly.
"You're up early Skylar," a male's voice sounded this time and the small girl looked up to see a tall man, with brown hair, ruffled slightly, and with blue eyes like his daughter's. The young girl smiled up at him as he patted the top of her head. "Here I thought Nick would be the one up and excited."
"He hasn't been excited at all." Skylar said, clearly disapproving of this fact. Her father chuckled
"You'll find that's not entirely true Skylar, he just doesn't want to show to you how he feels." Skylar frowned.
"Why not?" she tilted her head slightly.
"He thinks it's uncool." the girl frowned some more.
"He will tell me what it's like wont he? And you'll make him come home for Christmas to tell me all about it? And write to me while he's away?" her father chuckled some more as he sat beside her.
"Now Skylar, would you want to be spending your first year always writing to your younger siblings? Would you write to Leon about everything?" he asked. Skylar blinked at him for a minute before she sighed. "Besides, there's nothing Nicholas can tell you that you cannot read in one of the books, is there?"
"I guess not." Skylar thought. "Dad are you going to work today?" she asked and he nodded. "But then you cannot come to Diagon Alley with us."
"Not today unfortunately, I did ask but I will be home for dinner." he promised. She sighed again.
"Well, I guess that's alright."
"We will need to celebrate after all." she nodded excitedly before there was noise above them. The two turned and suddenly a small boy with a dressing gown half pulled on came running towards them. He was seven, with hazel eyes and brown hair like his father.
"Has it come!?" he asked as he panted while leaning on cushions and staring out the window as well.
"You as well Leon?" his father asked smiling.
"I wish it was me going!"
"Your time will come." his father assured.
"But I want to go now." Leon frowned.
"Well, it seems the only one who hasn't gotten up with excitement is the only one who has a reason to." The three turned to find a women, with auburn hair and hazel eyes, her skin pale, dressed in deep purple robes and walking towards them. She smiled as her husband stood to his feet and kissed her cheek sweetly.
"I think you'll find he's already awake." the man smiled.
Skylar and Leon shared a look before they dashed along the hallway. They moved until the front door came into view in which there were two sets of stairs moving up and away from. The two climbed one set and moved along a hallway to the right of the house until they reached a door. They stopped and both peaked into the room. It was light, the curtains over the windows having already been drawn. They could see through the well decorated room, in which several posters covered the walls. Each of the people inside, several on broomsticks, were whizzing about and moving. A bed sat to the left side, a desk in the corner facing one of the windows and a wardrobe and chest of draws closer to the door on the right. By the window was a boy, his hair short and brown like his younger brother and he too was staring at the sky like his sister had been doing earlier.
Skylar and Leon shared a look before they started giggling, their father having been right about him being excited. The eleven year old boy however heard the two and spun around. He moved to the door and opened it to have the nine year old girl and seven year old boy tumble into his room.
"What are you doing?" he demanded.
"Mum was wondering where you were." Leon admitted
"Dad said you'd be excited and refusing to show it." Skylar giggled. "He was right."
The elder boy blushed slightly.
There was a loud crack and the three all turned to see Midori standing in the hallway, bowing to them, before she looked at them.
"Breakfast is ready Masters and Mistress."
"Thanks Midori." the three chorused before the older boy moved off past his siblings who chuckled some more before they stood to their feet and moved off after their older brother.
They moved along the hall, down the stairs and turned right at the bottom, passing the entrance hall, front door, and moving through a heavy set of wooden sliding doors. Inside was a heavily decorated sitting room, a fire place sided by windows on their left faced the front drive and garden, and towards the front of the entrance gate and heavy silver fence that surrounded the property. There was another set of open sliding doors opposite the first, which lead to a highly dark polished dining table with many chairs around it. A chandelier graced most of the ceilings, including here, all the sitting rooms, over the landings and in the entrance hall. Along with this was two candlesticks sitting on the table and a large fireplace was within this room as well, graced with a large mirror above it and several crystal ornaments. Beside the fire was a much smaller door and large cabinets with different artefacts gracing it's mirrored shelves sat opposite the children entering the door.
Unlike this room, many of the hallways within the large manor were covered in portraits of all different witches and wizards; including family members, friends, and a few historical influences over the years. Each of these portraits moved, within their frames and into each others.
The kitchen sat on the same end of the house as the dinning table, backing towards the garden, another set of stairs joined it as well as a drawing room and Midori's room. In the middle at the back of the house, on the ground floor almost directly opposite the main entrance, was a ballroom, looking out over the back garden with a wall full of windows.
The library, two more sitting rooms, and their parents offices sat to the other side of the house. Upstairs was the three children's rooms to the left above these, a few other spare rooms joined these which included bedrooms for visitors, study rooms, and a few bathrooms, allowing Skylar to have her own instead of sharing with her brothers. On the other end was their parents' master room, another drawing room, sitting room and a room in which the children were given to do what ever they had wish with.
The three children parents were sitting at one end of the dinning table as Midori was filling the shinning goblets with a click of her fingers, the jug of juice floating and pouring it's contents by itself. The three all took a seat at the table, Skylar next to her mother, the two boys opposite them and their father at the head.
Everyone began eating when they were seated, they were silent as they ate but Nicholas was constantly glancing at the window to his right, looking down the drive as if expecting a visitor. His four family members all noticed this and were smiling slightly as they ate, not saying anything. Leon and Skylar shared a look and tried to snuffle their giggles, earning a look from their father in response.
"So, Nicholas, are you excited?" his mother spoke up. Her son looked at her before shrugging and turning back to his food.
"Little." and he glanced back at the window, ignoring as his siblings chuckled some more.
"As I remember correctly when you were little it was all you could talk about." his father said teasingly. Nicholas looked at him slightly annoyed.
"That was then. It's not that big a deal." he said stubbornly.
"That's why you were watching the sky for the owl outside the window earlier." Skylar said slyly and her brother scowled at her.
"I was just checking the weather for our visit to Diagon Alley." he lied.
"You're lying." both younger siblings responded and he looked ready to argue but Skylar and Leon shared another look over the table, their eyes locked as though they were having a conversation. Nick groaned
"Will you stop it."
"You do it too." Skylar pointed out.
"I'm not right now." he mumbled but even his parents chuckled at his antics.
"Nicholas there's nothing wrong with being excited." his mother assured. He said nothing.
The door behind their father opened and Midori walked in. The five turned and watched her as she moved over to stand between Nicholas and his father.
"An owl arrived sir." she bowed to them all before holding several letters up to their father who took them along with a rolled up newspaper. "And this arrived for Master Nicholas." in the elf's hands was a very thick yellow envelope. On one side was neat curly green writing and on the other, was a wax seal. It held four small images around a giant H.
Skylar sat forwards in her chair, getting as close as she could as Leon leaned over to their brother. Nicholas stared at the envelope as though he was nervous to open it, unsure what to do.
"Open it!" Skylar beamed and he looked at her, then to Leon. His parents nodded and he broke the wax seal before pulling out two pieces of parchment and a ticket. He read it aloud:
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Mr. Rosenwald,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on September 1. We await your owl by no later than July 31. Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall,
Deputy Headmistress
A grin slowly developed on Nicholas' face as Skylar and Leon shared a look of excitement. Their parents shared a smile before their mother called Midori and asked for a quill, ink, parchment and her owl, a Northern White-faced Owl by the name of Cicil. Both their parents had their own owls as they were constantly sending and receiving letters while working from home instead of when they were in the office, their father's owl was an Eagle Owl by the name of Trip.
Midori did as was asked and the auburn haired women wrote on the parchment before folding it up and handing it to the white and grey owl, the animal taking it in it's beak before letting Midori carry her to a window which the elf opened. The owl soared out the window while Leon was now trying to read the book list over his brother's shoulder, who's eyes were scanning it.
"What's it say?" Skylar demanded, annoyed as she was across the table and couldn't see what was written on the parchment.
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
UNIFORM
First-year students will require:
1. Three sets of plain work robes (black)
2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear
3. One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
4. One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)
Please note that all pupils' clothes should carry name tags
COURSE BOOKS
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
A Beginners' Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble
OTHER EQUIPMENT
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set of glass or crystal phials
1 telescope set
1 brass scales
Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad
PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS
"No broomsticks?" Leon frowned looking very disappointed "But I wanted to play Quidditch!"
"You can Leon, but not until your second year." his mother admitted
"It's accustomed you're time is not distracted by being a part of the team before you've learned to manage all your subjects and homework." their father nodded.
"Daddy can I please get my wand now?" Skylar asked but her father shook his head as he chuckled.
"Not until you're off to learn how to use it properly." he said and she frowned slumping into her chair.
"Not much longer for you now Skylar." her mother brushed her hair.
"Still two more years!" she complained
"It'll fly by in no time." her father assured "Besides, you can start learning by reading the books."
"I have been, it's not the same." Skylar said
"Coming from the girl who doesn't seem to have uncontrollable magic." Leon said grimacing, jealous of this fact.
"You do have a knock for magic without a wand already Skylar." her mother nodded.
The girl wasn't deterred from her wish of wanting to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry early.
"Well, I must be off." their father stood to his feet and Midori arrived with a briefcase as he ruffled Leon's head, patted Nicholas' shoulder, kissed Skylar's forehead and his wife's cheek.
"Have a good day at work Nathaniel." she smiled
"Enjoy your outing with the ruggrats Dom." he returned, earning complaints from the three and laughing as he made his way to the foyer, out the door, and with a turn on his heel there was a pop and the man was gone.
"Can we go now!?" Leon asked grinning, leaning expectantly on the table.
"Wouldn't you like to get dressed first?" his mother asked and Nathaniel smirked at his siblings as they realised they were still in their pyjamas. With a shared look the two younger siblings, having finished their breakfast, scrambled down from their chairs and ran off through the sitting room and clattered up the stairs to their rooms.
If you're interested, Skylar starts Hogwarts in chapter 14.