Albus Potter and the Cauldron of Light

Chapter 1: The Potter Family

Albus slowly stepped out of his bed and sighed. He walked forwards and suddenly stopped, his eyes then turned a cloudy white. Albus, not quite conscious of what he was doing reached his hand out and grabbed a pen on his desk. In a split second he conjured a piece of paper and with the pen he drew.

A brief moment later he blinked. He then looked down at the paper and he swore under his breath. It had happened again. On the paper he had drawn a large lightening bolt just below the picture of a wand and just above the drawing of a cauldron that was strangely glowing a bright gold.

Albus shook his head in disbelief, why did this keep happening? Suddenly, he heard his mother yelling for him, "Albus! James! Get down here now!"

"Oh, that can't be good", Albus said with a gulp. He quickly opened his desk drawer which was filled with paper identical to the one he was holding. After placing the latest paper in the drawer and closing it, he ran downstairs not wanting to anger his mother.

As he passed the curtain covering the painting of the mother his grandfather's closest friend, he took in the scene below him in the hallway. His mother, Ginny Potter, was staring angrily at Albus' brother James. Next to them was his sister, Lily, crying.

"What's going on?" Albus asked nervously.

James shrugged, "No idea."

Lily managed to say something through her sobs. "You... you know what you did."

"Honestly," James sighed, "What are you going on about?"

Ginny grabbed James by the arm and dragged him up the stairs, "Right!"

"Wait... Get off me!"

Albus frowned, strange; James didn't normally lie about his jokes. Curious, Albus followed them up the stairs and into Lily's room. Lily's room was not as large as the other rooms in the house but was still quite big. It was also usually clean. However, it was now seemingly a quarter of its normal size and it was cluttered with items that Albus was sure did not belong to Lily.

In the middle of the room Ginny and James were in an argument. "So you're still saying you didn't do this?" Ginny said, sarcastically.

"What?! I'd need magic to do all this! And I'm not allowed to do magic outside of school, am I?" James shouted, "Why do I always get blamed for things?"

Ginny had said something in response but Albus had stopped listening. He had been distracted by what was scratched into the walls. It was the word 'Beware', however, what really worried him was the picture next to the word. It was the lightening bolt that Albus had been drawing so often.

As he touched the damaged wall he whispered to himself, "D...Did I do this?"

Albus was snapped out of his daydream when the door downstairs opened. James groaned morosely, "Great... Dad."

Ginny dragged James down to Harry and Albus was about to follow when the window behind him suddenly opened. He spun round nervous for some inexplicable reason. Albus blinked in surprise when he saw Hugo crawling into the room through the window.

"H-Hugo?" Albus said, curiously.

Hugo looked at Albus surprised, "Erm... Lily here?"

Albus shook his head, "No, but... what are you doing here?"

"I... Er... what happened here?" Hugo said looking around the room obviously trying to change the subject.

"Well..."

There was suddenly an extremely loud explosion. "What was THAT?!" Albus shouted in surprise.

Hugo looked even more nervous than usual, "Yeah... That was probably Mum and Dad..."

"Your Mum and Dad!?" Albus yelled still in shock of what was happening.

"Er... yeah, they brought the flying car."

"The WHAT!?"

From downstairs Hugo and Albus heard shouts of "Hermione!" and "Ron!"

"Don't worry", Hugo said, "they're used to crashing. Turns out Uncle George isn't that good at building flying cars. Made it himself and gave it to Dad, said it was 'something to help remember the good old days'."

Albus shook his head, "this is too much..." Suddenly Albus' head started to burn. "ARRRGGGHHH!!!!!"

Hugo reacted surprisingly quickly, grabbing Albus as he collapsed. "Albus!" he heard Hugo yelling, "What's wrong?! I don't understand-"

As Albus drifted in and out of consciousness he heard snippets of conversations. He wasn't sure who was talking and what about. He heard, "Shadows in the dark", "Still after us", "Sent him ahead" and just before he finally drifted from consciousness, "Death Eaters working for someone else..."

Author's note: Alright, here we go! I'm sure other people have written tons of stories like this by now but I really hope that people will enjoy this and think its something different than what has been written before. I won't be going straight into Albus' first year of Hogwarts, some things I want to set up first but things will be exciting even outside of Hogwarts (I hope). Next Chapter will be longer than this; I just wanted to get started.