Chapter one- The unexpected guest

Hey, I'm Jodie Morgan, a 14 year old, brown-haired girl that always wears jeans, hoodies and converse. Thing is it may seem simple for me to blend into a crowd but really it's not. Not really. You see I'm not normal; I'm not like other people. I go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; how could my life ever be normal.

I'm half-blood, not that it matters anymore seen as Voldemort has gone, and I'm a Gryffindor. Brave, Loyal, daring, just some of the words a Gryffindor is. Don't get me wrong, I love being a Gryffindor, but there's a lot to live up to. A lot. Harry Potter the man who killed Voldemort was in this house. Oh and one more thing my best friend is James. James Sirius Potter.

"MATT!" I shout up the stairs. Matt is my 17 year old brother, who is also in Gryffindor. He has a side-fringe that he is always flicking out of his face and it gets pretty annoying especially when we go to Diagon Alley. It's like he's trying to impress someone, for example every single girl he's ever met. He is a player; I swear he's been out with about 10 girls already in this current year. "YOU BETTER GET DOWN HERE OR I'LL EAT YOUR... OWL." I snigger.
"DON'T EAT MY OWL! PLEASE!" He jokes as he appears at the top of the staircase, putting on his jumper. "Alright Mischief, how you doing?" Mischief, his nickname for me. Probably correct seen as I am the one always getting into trouble for doing mischievous things.
"Good. How you doing?"
"Great. Where's Jeremy?" Jeremy is my other brother he is younger than me by one year. He, unlike me and Matt, had blondish hair, still has the side-fringe though. He is a Slytherin, something me and Matt could never accept at first, but no way does that count him out of anything. He is our brother and the youngest of us, we were gonna tease him anyway.
"Probably still in bed. Go check. I'll end up pouring water over his head." I smirk. Already done that once before - he nearly killed me. Still it was funny.
Matt chuckles.
"True. I'll go check." he ran back up the stairs, and I shortly followed going into my bedroom instead. It is red and gold, to make me feel more at home. I'd chuck my stuff around the room so there where skateboards in the corner and pieces of paper all over the desk and converse thrown all over the floor. That's what felt more homely. I only stayed here a few months a year you see, normally I stay at school but seen as it's the summer holidays I'm at home. Good thing is I'm going back tomorrow and I can't wait.

A moody Jeremy barged into my room.
"Jo, where's your straighteners?" He asked. I sniggered picking up my straighteners and handed him them.
"Don't break them." he smiled.
"Course not." He hugged me. "You're the best sister in the world."
I hugged him back not use to this burst of kindness.
"Woah, what's got over you? You don't normally hug people."
"Just happy." He smiled and walked out. I laughed, collapsing onto my bed. I lay there thinking about going back to school and seeing James and Alex. Oh yeah Alexia Sutton, my other best friend. She's got dark blonde hair and I'm taller than her by an inch. I always remember being taller than her, she says that I'm not but really I am.
"Jo." Matt appeared round the door. "Do you have my tie?"
I got up and checked around the room, looking round for the tie.
"Nope. I'll help you look for it, if you want?"
"Yeah cool. Thanks." He nodded and I followed him out. "I'll go look downstairs." He walked down the stairs.
"Guess I'll search up here." I nodded starting in his room, cause I know he's probably not looked properly.

Wow his bedroom is a mess, and that's coming from me. There were magazines all over the floor, don't ask me what their about I really don't want to know, then there where clothes all over the floor as well as sweets wrappers. I started searching throwing everything out of the way, I looked under his bed, behind his desk and then I saw it in the corner of the room. I picked it up, I'm shocked. It's got lipstick marks all over it. I walked out of the room, holding the tie between two of my fingers. I walked down the stairs and stood in front of Matt with the tie pointing out in front of me.
"I don't want an explanation please. Take the tie." I threw it at him.
"What do you expect? I'm a boy."
"Not all guys are like you, dirty boy." I smirked.
"Shut up." He laughed, I turned around and started to walk back up the stairs.
"Jo. Don't tell mum and dad. Please." I looked back at his face which had turned all serious.
"Matt, I'm not a snitch."
"Course, you're not gold and you don't have wings." He joked.
"Oh you know what I mean." I laughed walking back up the stairs.

My owl, Comet, came flying through the window, carefully landing on his perch on the left side of the room, a letter tied to his foot. I walked over to him and he held his foot out for me to take the letter. I recognise the hand writing straight away, quickly tearing it open and reading it.
'Dear Jo,
How you doing? How was your holiday? Wow America was amazing, Dad showed Al, Lily and I all the places where many wanted Wizards and Witches were captured! I can't wait to see you tomorrow. Ready to prank people again? Have you heard from Alex?
From James :P'
I smiled and quickly grabbed my quill from my desk and some parchment and scribbled back,
'Dear James,
I'm glad you had a nice holiday, sounds awesome. My holiday was cool and I'm great. Can't wait to see you either, we are gonna prank everyone. I haven't heard from Alex yet. Wonder how she is.
From Jo.'
I sent it back with Comet, smiling as he flew off in the distance. Then I realised that I hadn't packed yet so it was that mental time when I ran around gathering everything together and putting it in the Suitcase.

A few hours later I finally finished packing and I again lay on my bed fixing a skateboard that broke the other day. That's when I heard a load thump from downstairs. I grabbed my wand from my desk, ran out to the hallway where Matt and Jeremy where standing side-by-side wands drawn.
"What's happening?" I whispered.
"Mum and Dad are out they can't be back already. It must be an intruder." Matt replied.
"What should we do?" Jeremy's voice was trembling.
"Wow they're right about Slytherin's act all brave and when it comes to it, their real wimps." I smirked, looking at Jeremy's face turning red. Matt put his hand on Jeremy's shoulder.
"Not the time to get angry mate." He told him. That's when the second thump came and the front door swung open.
"Nox." I whispered under my breath, the light turned off straight away. I couldn't see the figure standing in the door way clearly, but I could tell they were a girl. Average height, longish hair, I could tell because the wind was blowing it around. They walked in and Matt pushed me and Jeremy against the wall, while he stepped forwards, that's when it all kicked off. Matt shouted a curse, the girl dodged it, I jumped down the stairs pinning her to the ground. Matt turned on the light and now looking down at the girl I could tell she had long blonde hair. Matt gasped and that's when I realised I did know this girl and it wasn't just anyone it was...
"Jade? What the hell are you doing here?" Jeremy asked as he walked down the stairs. I quickly jumped away from her seen as she was a prefect at Hogwarts and a Slytherin one at that. She got up brushing off her clothes giving me a glare. I looked at Matt, seen as he'd gone all quiet I guess he'd known something about this.
"I came to talk to Matt about his prefect duties tomorrow." She answered.
"Oh so that's why Matt wasn't expecting you then." I replied in an attempt to catch her out.
"No, I completely forgot about it." Matt told me.
"So why did she break down the front door then?" I asked.
"Because I told her to climb through my bedroom window which was locked." I didn't believe him but there was no point in arguing so I just walked up the stairs to my bedroom and closed the door. I shortly heard Jeremy follow and there was a light knock on the door.
"Come in." I replied while lying face down on my bed reading a magazine about Quidditch. Jeremy walked in and sat down on the end of my bed.
"I don't believe them." I sat up and looked at him.
"Nor do I. But why would he lie?" I questioned knowing he wouldn't know the answer.
"I know why." I stared at him paying more attention now. Questions running through my head. Why? What? How? Why?
"Go on."
"He likes her doesn't he." I nearly choked on laughter. You've got to be joking my brother with a Slytherin; you're more likely to meet Father Christmas than that. So it's impossible. "Jo I'm being serious." I looked him straight in the eyes; normally if he was lying then he would laugh or look away, but not today. He was really being serious. But why would he like her? Out of all the girls in the world he had to pick her. But then again last year they spent a lot of time together both being prefects and all.
"Right I'm gonna find out what's going on. Now." I stood up and stormed down the stairs noticing that it had got darker outside and the moon was shining brightly along with the stars. I walked into the kitchen to find they weren't there, so I turned round and opened the door to the living room. Obviously Jeremy wasn't as curious as me because he hadn't followed, or maybe he was just trying to stay out of trouble.

Both heads turn automatically as I walked in. I stood there shocked.
"So it's true then, what Jeremy says. A Slytherin. Dads not going to be happy is he."
"Jo, calm down. Jades all right; she nice."
"Oh yeah. I can tell; you seem to like her a lot don't you." Matt pushed me out of the room and quickly followed closing the door leaving Jade in there alone.
"What is up with you?" He asked.
"Well maybe I want to know why you lied to me about talking about prefect duties? Or maybe I just don't like Slytherins."
"Why do you have to know everything about my life? Why do you have a problem with everything I do? Huh? What about all the times I've covered for you when mum and dad find out about the trouble you've caused at Hogwarts." A look of realisation came across his face. "That's why isn't it? Because she's always giving you detentions. Because you're always in trouble-" I couldn't stand this anymore, so I walked straight past him opening the door and slamming it behind me. I run as tears stream down my face. I don't know where or why I'm running but I am. I jump over the fence to the skate park and carry on running. I can hear Matt calling my name and running after me but no way am I going back. I don't even know why I'm crying, why I'm doing this to Matt? Is it fair? Would he do it to me? No that's a definite.

I crawl up in a ball again a tree, far away from any other, one they'll never find me at. I sit there, thinking things over, wanting to talk to someone but everyone I think of seems a bad idea even James and Alex.

I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I see is the sun shining through the trees making a beautiful pattern. I stood up and stretched, looking around. I start walking towards the entrance gate, noticing something peculiar. A guy dressed all in black with a cape floating around his ankles. I gasp as he turns towards me and I quickly dive behind a tree as he starts walking in my direction. Now I get up, I'm running for my life, dodging trees and jumping over walls. I run as I watch things come tumbling down behind me from Death Eaters following me. What's their problem? Just because their life is messed up they have to mess up other peoples.

I was still running as I reached our front door, I had no idea whether the Death Eaters had followed me or not and I wasn't planning on turning round and checking. I opened the front door and walked inside and was suddenly overwhelmed with hugs.
"Jo, where the hell have you been? Got us all worried." James told her.
"Worried you? Come on." I laughed. "All right Alex?"
"All right. I couldn't owl during the holidays because I didn't have anything to write on or with."
"Nah it's cool." So I turned to Matt. "Look I'm sorry..."
"No, I'm the one that should be sorry. I lied. I shouldn't have done that, it was stupid. I'm sorry." I smiled and hugged him. He hugged me back.
"Wait what's the time?" I asked.
"Nine. The Hogwarts express leaves in two hours." Louis, Alex's brother told me.
"Thank" Then our parents walked through the door.
"You two – living room now!" My dad told us, we didn't want to get into more trouble so we just did as we were told.
"Sit." He pointed at the chairs. "Now I don't know why or what came over both of you last night but it was unacceptable behaviour! Ms. Mittens was complaining to me that it sounded like someone had broken into the house! And why did you storm out of the house?" My dad asked me.
"I don't know." I replied.
"It's my fault dad, really. I was annoying her." Matt was always good at lying, not that he did, but he was good at it.
"Really? Well in that case I will be confiscating both of your brooms and I will make sure that you can't play Quidditch at school for a month." he told us.
"What? But dad that's not fair-" I answered back.
"No buts, no ifs. Now go get your stuff we're leaving for the Hogwarts express in a minute." I got up and slumped out of the room annoyed at myself. The others had disappeared, obviously gone back with their families, but I'll see them soon enough.