Worse Than That
By Trixie0828
This story is a fan fiction and anything dealing with muggles, Hogwarts, the wizarding world and the characters are not mine they are Rowling's. The only thing that is mine is Isabelle, anything else is not mine and it all comes form Rowling and my being a fan of her books. This is only my interpretations of what i think her characters would do in this kind of situation.
Most of this stuff may not make complete sense because I'm not that great at writing and it made sense in my head when I did it. Read if you like if you don't its no skin off my nose. But it is also okay if you do.
Prologue: New Good or Bad
August 31st /04 11:45pm
Dear Journal,
All my life I've lived as muggle, I've never really been a part of the wizarding world. Even though I know about it and since I was a eleven taken magic lessons. But it was never in a school setting always at home where that was for that month. My father has raised me by himself since I was 3 years old and we've travelled all over the world. He is a Government Official, not a muggle Government Official he is Canada's Ambassador from the Canadian Ministry of Magic for other magic ministries in other countries and that's why we travel a lot. But ever summer we went back to his hometown of Lethbridge, Alberta, his brother my uncle lives there and we stay with him all summer.
That's the only place I've ever been able to call home and the only place no one other then my family knows, so I have people I can call friends. My cousin is the is so absolutely annoying, but she has always be fun to hang around with so far she thinks me going to Hogwarts sucks to. The whole having to where uniforms and that, she's always stayed in Lethbridge and been home school form magic after her regular studies. So lucky her.
I've always gone to muggle schools and when I was 11 I started taking a lot more magical studies at home with my father or someone from the family that lives where ever we are then. I've never been to a wizard school before; I've never really interacted with anyone my age with magical abilities. I've never had a friend that I could share this power, this experience with, I haven't even had any real muggle friends either once I get settled and think I'm making a friend we pack up and move somewhere else. Father's job takes us around the world, I used to want to go to a wizarding school because my father would tell me about the one he went to and how much fun it was.
My father met my mother after school, he had gone to a magic school in Canada and the school my mother had went to, the one I was about to start at was called Hogwarts it's in England I'm told. And the only reason I have to start going there is because this year wizards and witches my age take these tests called O.W.L's and they help you decide what career your going to have and plan for the future.
All I want to do is help my father as I've always done but no! I have to go to a wizard school in another country, I may get to see father for Christmas or Easter but most likely not until the summer. I've never been that long with out him, or this far away from him. But since your allowed pets I've brought Pippin (my beautiful Black cat) and left Merry (his twin brother) with dad. Merry and Pippin have always help father and I stay together because Pippin and Merry always know when something is wrong with father or I. They have this connection, they have ESP of some kind of telepathic or empathic ability.
Maybe it won't be so bad, dad says I'll have to go there for the next three years, and I'll come home ever summer. I'll live in a dormitory with other people all year maybe make some friends. I'm told they split the students up into houses and since they are usually chosen in first year, you stay in that house your whole school career. There is four of these houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, the four founders prised different qualities in students so they split them up and made the houses so everyone could still be accepted. They usually have a ceremony in first year where a hat is placed on each first years head and the house they belong to is called out. Well anticipating that I wouldn't want to be counted among the first years my dad arranged for my sorting to take place earlier and trick me to putting on the hat and find out where I was to be placed. (Ya, when I was 8 so I thought it was a big game!)
Father had invited this old man to supper who was a real crack pot (but then I like crack pots most of my family is like that) so I just sat and listened to his stories and loved them to bits. The man's name was Albus Dumbledore and the headmaster of Hogwarts the school my mother went to so when they asked me to try on this old hat of his I said yes of course, tried on the hat and it yell out Gryffindor. To me it was a game and didn't mean anything but it was the start of his plot to abandon me at this school and say it was for the best. Stupid parents and their "I know what's best for you crap." It's always the way, but the big reason I'm scared to go is I'll miss him, his all I've got. And what if people find out again and I like it there and have to leave…
Like most of the non-muggle places we've been technology doesn't work so I have this small crystal ball that I can fit in the palm of my hand that has all of the music I like on it and its magical so will work at Hogwarts. Even thought I'm underage I can still use it because there are no guild lines that any ministry of magic has or can come up with that can forbid me to use it because you don't need magic to turn it off or on.
Hahaha...they thought they could stop me! I can't live with out my music, the only time I'm not a klutz is when I'm singing and dancing to music. Well I arrive at the London airport at 2:00am in the morning and I go to this hotel dad set up for me till about 10:00am then I have to go to King's Crossing Train station for the 11:00am train for Hogwarts. My ticket is really weird it says I must go to platform 9 ¾, that should be fun to find I'm guessing it's got a muggle barrier up over it so yeah! I should be able to find it in a pinch…not! Well I think I better get to looking over these books I was given for classes and about the school. Me no want to go… :(