Author's note: Hi everyone this is my first Fanfic. As I stated in my profile I'm working on improving my writing and I want you to be harsh and point out every tiny mistake. The names of the cousins are the actual names that J.K. Rowling picked and stated in an interview. Their ages were not specified so I made them up. The same thing applies to the people the Weasley's married. If you want to find out more about who married who and who's kids are who I've put the family tree on my profile. Oh and Justin, Austin and Brett are all made up. Hope you guy like it.
Harry Potter: The Next Generation
Chapter One: Aboard the Hogwarts Express
Albus watched his Dad wave to him till he disappeared around the corner. Suddenly feeling very empty and lonely he turned to Rose and James to distract him.
"Well I'll see you first years later," James said. "Now don't run into any fifth year Slytherin's they will jinx you into a jelly."
Rose looked alarmed but Albus knew enough about his brother to know he was just trying to get to them.
"Come on," he said to Rose. "Let's go find a compartment."
They dragged their trunks along the aisle squeezing past other students who were trying to find friends. They finally found a compartment that was empty and dragged their stuff into it. Albus then noticed how high the racks were and how heavy their trunks were and looked at Rose at a loss for what to do.
"How are we supposed to get these up there?" Rose asked.
"No idea you're the smart one," Albus said. "Don't you have something in that sack of books of yours."
"No you know mom wouldn't let me try spells before today." Rose complained.
Just then the compartment door slid open and their cousin Fred walked in tailed by their other cousin Louis.
"Hey Al, hey Rose," Fred said. "We were looking for you at the station but we couldn't find you."
"It was packed wasn't it," Albus agreed.
"So how does it feel to be going off to Hogwarts at last?" Louis asked.
"Great!" Albus said enthusiastically. "I can't wait to get started."
"I'm not near enough ready," Rose said. "I haven't even read Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling over yet."
All three boys rolled their eyes. "You know Rose there is absolutely nothing to worry about, loads of people haven't even cracked open any of their books yet." Louis assured her.
"Yeah I have a strict no-look-in-till-second-half-of-the-year policy." Fred said. "By the way do you plan on riding with your trunks on the floor you know there's only enough room for so much in this compartment."
"Yeah speaking of which can you like hover these up to the rack we kind can't do it."
"You could use the Wingardium Leviosa it a hover charm developed by Cradair Hepsnuf in the 12th century and one of the most simplest charms." Rose piped up.
"Umm okay come on Louis let's get our little cous's trunk up with Wingardium Leviosa," Fred he did a weird wand movement and Albus's trunk floated up and set itself on the rack. Louis did the same thing with Rose's trunk and it floated up to rest beside Albus's which left Rose looking at Louis longingly.
"Don't worry," Louis said laughing at Rose's expression. "You'll learn soon enough."
"Oh guess who got Quidditch captain this summer," Fred said.
"Roxie?" Albus guessed.
"Yep," Fred said. "Hopefully she'll let me back on the team."
Roxie or Roxanne was Fred's older sister. She was a chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team along with Fred who was a beater and some other people that Albus didn't know.
"Did I hear someone talking about Quidditch?" James asked appearing behind Louis. "Oh hi Louis I was looking for you." He greeted his cousin briefly.
"Yep Roxie made Captain," Fred said.
"Excellent maybe I'll get special treatment cause we're related," James said rubbing his hands together. James was trying out for the Gryffindor Quidditch team this year as a seeker since their usual one, according to James who had talked about it non-stop, had graduated.
Albus snorted. "Yeah right like Roxie's going to give you special treatment. Wasn't it you who dropped itching powder in her socks."
"And dropped instant dark powder on her and made her fall in my swimming pool?" Louis said.
"And fed her that canary cream when we invited the Splades over for supper." Roxie had a huge crush on the Splade's son Ben. It was public information, everyone seemed to know about and tease Roxie about it even Luna and Rolf's six-year-old twins Lorcan and Lysander. The only one who didn't know about it was Ben himself.
"That was you who fed her the canary cream," James said.
"Oh right that was me" Fred said. "Hard to keep track of these thing you know."
"Speaking of people other people like guess who we saw snogging Teddy on the platform?" James asked.
"Who?" Louis and Fred questioned.
"Non other then your sister Victoire," James said triumphant that he was the one to deliver this news.
"No way Vicky's dating Teddy?" Louis said.
"Oh I have to find her immediately and question/tease her about it," Fred said.
"Who are you going to go tease now Fred?" Dominique, Louis's older sister who was in the same year as Roxanne, 5th, asked appearing out of no where.
"Your sister, she dating Teddy," Fred said.
"No way Vicky's dating Teddy?" Roxanne asked appearing from behind Dominique.
"Yep," Fred said.
"So that's what she was doing in her room the door locked all summer." Dominique mused. "Writing to Teddy either that or apparating back and forth."
"Hey captain," James said grinning at Roxie.
"Don't try to kiss up to me James Sirius I'm not letting you on the team unless you can catch the snitch which I'm sure you won't be able to do with that FAT HEAD!" Roxie said.
"Now Roxie what did mom say about calling your little cousins names?" Fred asked in a fake concerned voice. "You know there smaller then you and-."
"Oh shut your mouth Fred or I won't let you back on the team," Roxie said.
Fred snorted. "Yeah and you're going to get Cadler instead, he wouldn't even be able to lift the bat."
"Anyway," Louis said breaking in between the siblings. "Guess what I'm going to Hogsmede this year."
"Really I had no idea," Fred said. "You didn't mention it like 500 times before you got on the train."
Louis glared at Fred.
"You'll bring me back something right?" Albus asked. He had forgotten that Louis was going into his 3rd year.
"And me!" Rose piped up from her book she was reading.
"Rose! Didn't even see you there," Dominique said. She frowned. 'Haven't you read that before?" She asked.
Albus squinted at the title. Hogwarts, a History, it figured. That was Rose's favorite book. It had been her mom's before hers.
"Yeah but I want to review it," Rose said before disappearing into her book again.
"Well so long I have a cousin to annoy," Fred said strolling away to look for Victoire.
"Hey Louis, James," a boy stuck his head out the compartment door and called to James and Louis.
"Hey Brett," Louis said.
Albus suck his head out of the compartment to see this Brett person.
"Oh hey is that your little brother you were talking about James?" Brett said.
"Yeah this Albus," James said. "I have another little cousin named Rose who's in the compartment behind me."
"My little brother named Austin is starting this year he's in a compartment down a couple spaces. I'll introduce you if you like." Brett offered.
"Umm sure," Albus agreed.
He walked out the door and followed Brett to a compartment a few doors down. Brett slid it open and Albus saw two boys that looked about first year.
"Hey Austin who's your friend?" Brett asked.
"This is Justin," the boy who Albus was sure was Austin said. "Justin, this is my older brother Brett," Austin told his friend. "But who's this?"
"This James little brother, Albus right?" Brett said.
"Hey isn't James your friend who son of Harry Potter," Austin said.
"Yeah that's my dad," Albus said uncomfortably.
"Cool Austin said. "I've read all about him he's like the most famous wizard of all time. Well except for Voldemort and Dumbledore which by the way wasn't Albus his first name."
"Yeah I was named after two of the Hogwarts Headmasters, Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape. Severus is my middle name." Albus said.
"Neat I'm just Austin Garrett Tasert," Austin said. "My mom just liked the name Austin and Garret was my grandfather's name. You want to come sit?" Austin asked.
"Oh sure thanks," Albus walked in the compartment and sat down on the sea across from Austin. He seemed friendly enough.
"Well I'll leave you kids alone I'm going back with Louis, James, and a couple other boys bye." Brett said and he disappeared.
The three boys talked for awhile. Austin was really nice and friendly and Albus opened up to him immediately. Justin wasn't as friendly, in fact he hardly said anything. Albus caught him once glaring at him which was weird. Albus was sure he hadn't done anything to offend him. The only words that Justin did say were rude and snarky as Aunt Audrey, Uncle Percy's wife, would say. They talked about how they were excited to go off to Hogwarts and what house they wanted to be in. They talked till the food trolley came around and Albus went back to his compartment to get his money.
He found Rose surrounded by books curled up on the seat. "Rose did you even notice I was gone?" He chuckled.
"Yeah of course I did, where were you by the way?" Rose asked.
"A couple compartments down with some boys in our year, you should come meet them." Albus said.
"Oh I don't know I'm pretty happy where I am," Rose said.
"You'll have plenty of time to read books at the school come meet someone your own age," Albus encouraged.
"Oh okay fine," Rose closed her book and grabbed her moneybag too.
They hurried back to Austin and Justin's compartment. "Hey guys this is my cousin Rose," Albus introduced his cousin.
"Hi," Rose said shyly.
"Hi Rose," Justin said. "Come sit."
What? Why was Justin all friendly all of a sudden?
"Thanks," Rose said. She sat beside Justin.
Confused Albus ordered his stuff from the trolley and sat beside Austin.
"So Rose, you're cousins with Albus how?" Justin asked.
"Umm my dad is Albus's mom's sister, and my mom and dad were both Albus's mom and dad, Aunt Ginny and Uncle Harry's, really good friends. With me and Albus the same age plus my little brother Hugo and Albus's little sister Lily being the same age we see each other a lot." Rose said growing more confident with each word.
"I don't have many cousins and most of them are older then me," Justin said. "The only cousin who is the same age as me is a girl, you'd probably like her."
"Oh we have lots of cousins right Al," Rose said.
"Yeah in all there's me, you Hugo, James and Lily," Albus said counting on his fingers.
"Fred and Roxie," Rose added.
"Louis, and Vicky."
"And Dominique."
"Molly and Lucy."
"And Lorcan and Lysander are practically our cousins since we see them every week at Grandma's for Sunday brunch."
"And then of course there's Teddy who not only is my god brother but also is going to be our cousin." Albus finished. "So that's fifteen in all. If of course thing work out between Teddy and Vicky." Albus laughed.
Rose giggled.
"What's so funny?" Austin asked.
"Oh my brother caught our cousin Vicky snogging my godbrother Teddy. Fred, our cousin, went off to go tease her. I was actually thinking of Vicky's expression, she's like 16th or a 32nd veela so she has some temper." Albus said.
Rose giggled again.
They all talked till it started to get dark. Justin's questions or comments were usually directed Austin or Rose never at Albus which was weird. He wasn't as mean as he was before due to Rose being there Albus presumed.
Suddenly the door of their compartment slid open with such force it almost shattered the window and Victoire stepped in, flaming mad. Albus could almost see steam coming out of her ears and was very glad she wasn't full veela or the train would be burnt on it's tracks.
"Where is that big headed, scrawny little weasel, stringy haired, flat nosed, jerk!" Victoire spat.
"You forgot wart face," Albus said. "And stringy haired is a new one. I've never heard it before." Victoire blew up on James at least once a week if not more and it was no surprise. Austin and Justin on the other hand were squished against the wall looking terrified of Victoire.
"Don't play with me Albus Severus Potter, where is that wart faced brother of yours?" Victoire said.
"A couple compartments down," Albus said. "Oh and by the way his friends didn't do anything so don't hurt them, your brother is innocent so don't do as much damage to him and not to beat James up so much that it notices because we're probably going to arrive at Hogwarts soon."
"Thanks for the advice I'll go for his innards," Victoire said smiling evilly. She turned to leave. "Oh and by the way you guys should change into your robes."
Rose and Albus went to go change into their robes. Albus waited outside while Rose changed into her and Rose went outside so Albus could change into hers. While he was changing Albus felt butterflies flutter in his stomach and he felt excited and nervous at the same time. He was almost at Hogwarts, after years of waiting he was almost at Hogwarts.
The conversation he'd had with his dad came back to him. What if the sorting hat did put him in Slytherin. Sure the sorting hat put Dad into Gryffindor because he'd asked but what if he didn't do that now. Albus felt his breath catch in his throat at that thought and his heart began beating painfully.
No he was going to be in Gryffindor. Albus took a few deep breaths and calmed himself down. He stood there a couple minutes breathing deeply trying to calm down himself down. It didn't work so Albus gave up and let Rose back in.
They got their owls. Rose was a tawny barn owl named Remy who apparently was a famous headmistress long, long, long time ago. Albus had Northern Spotted owl named Calver. Rose packed up her books and Albus made a last minute check to make sure they didn't leave anything behind. They didn't talk both too nervous. Albus felt as if he would be sick if opened his mouth.
It was both too soon and too long before the train slowed down. With nervous and excited looks Albus and Rose went out to meet Hagrid and start their year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Well how did you like it? Please review and tell me what I need to work on. I'll post the next chapter as soon as I can but I'm pretty busy. Oh and by the way Luna actually married someone named Rolf who is the grandson of the author Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and they did actually have twin boys named Lorcan and Lysander.
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