A Freak at Hogwarts: Year One
By: DariaD
Disclaimer: HP world and characters all belong to JK Rowling, WB, and Bloomsbury.
Reviews: Please!!!!!!
AN: this story was created over the summer by my cousin and me.
Chp. 1
July, 27 1997
London, England.
Laney Smith was walking down the street in chalk farm on her way to Camden lock.
Today was her 11th birthday, after getting some money from her grandmother by post; she was going to spend it on some new stuff.
Entering a shop Laney was browsing through a sales rack looking for new trousers…
It was now seven pm and Laney was in the Tube on her way home.
Exiting the tube and underground she was now walking through the streets of Chelsea.
She was now in front of a nice medium sized house, in which she lived in with her mother, father and bratty little brother.
She entered the house, climbed up the stairs and walked into her room.
Only to find Jake, her little brother, inside.
"JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!! Get out of my room! NOW!"
a scared little boy shortly exited the room.
Dropping her bags to the floor, she sat down on her bed. There was a strange noise, looking down she saw a piece of paper poking underneath her.
Pulling at said piece of paper she found out it was an envelope.
On the front it said: Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
She opened the envelope thinking what kind of lunatic sent it. Inside was written:
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 Ms Smith,
We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
"My god, this has got to be a joke!", and she threw it down to the floor and went down for dinner.
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At the exact same time Kelly White was in a wizard shop buying some stuff, more correctly buying some more stuff, it's not as if she needed any she was just bored.
At the moment she was browsing through magical guitars in The Magical Music shop.
"Aw! Cool!" she exclaimed at a brand new shiny see through flying guitar. Looking at the price (17 Galleons, 11 Sickles and 9 Knuts) she merely shrugged; in her hand was the guitar.
A couple of minutes later she exited the shop her wallet slightly lighter than before. Her parents gave her some money for getting the stupid letter from Hogwarts.
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William Montgomery was just tiding up his room after being yelled at by his mother for making too much noise with his new foldable guitar. His parents were both delighted about him being accepted into Hogwarts and his mother was currently next door talking to Kelly's mum about how great this was. William, himself did not care much whether or not he was accepted into Hogwarts, for all he cared he might as well be accepted into Shenkin School for the slow young wizard. It's not as if it had actually mattered.
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July 28th 1997
Laney's mum was cleaning the house and was now at Laney's room, she was swiping the floor as she found a weird looking parchment and a yellow envelope. She picked it up and read the letter, after she finished reading the letter she became as pale as the walls in the room, "Laney! Come here now!" Laney was yelled at, from down stairs she answered "What?! What did I do now? It wasn't me, I swear!", "not something you did, something you are! Will you just come here please?", "ok, ok I'm coming"
Laney walked up stairs and into her room to find her mother holding the weird letter she received yesterday, "mum, what are you doing with that?" suddenly her mother hugged her in tears. "Oh honey, I'm so happy for you, your grandparents would have been so proud" "what are you talking about? Is it about this weird letter you are holding?" "Ohh! Honey, you shall understand everything shortly…."
(AN: just imagine yourself, we're very lazy people…..^_^ Laney's mum is a squib)
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August, 7th 1997
Laney was currently being dragged by her mother through the busy streets of London, on their way to Diagon alley. They were having trouble finding it since her mother had not been there for quite some time.
"Ah! There it is…."
"What? Where? Mum I can't see anything!"
"See right there through the Leaky Cauldron."
"EWWWWW! Mum I'm not going in there" Laney said pointing at the shabby pub.
Her mother did not answer she only dragged Laney inside. They walked through the dingy pub to exit through the back door. They were now in front of a brick wall, Laney's mother tapped some bricks and… Suddenly Diagon Alley appeared!
Laney's jaw drooped for a few moments. "Cool…" was heard by anybody in the area.
"Come on Laney, we have to get some money from Gringots, even though those goblins are awfully creepy…" Laney's eyes popped out. "G-G-Goblins?"
"Yes, Goblins dear"
"Wicked." They walked into the white building of Gringots and approached the first nicest looking goblin they could find (that wasn't so easy) and asked to exchange some muggle money the goblin gave them a examining look and took their money to the back room, after a few seconds he came back with a handful of wizard money.
Laney's mother glanced at the Hogwarts letter and grabbed Laney to some more stores. After a long and exhausting shopping day they were home, with some robes, a wand made of ebony wood and unicorn hair, a cauldron, some quills, parchments, some new magical drum sticks and a bit of change.
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August 31st 1997
William and Kelly were now on the Hogwarts express deck saying goodbye very boredly to their parents. "Oh honey, I'm going to miss you so much!" said William's mum. "Yeah mum, whatever" William was now slowly backing away from his mother.
Kelly's father was discreetly giving her some more money, "Don't tell your mother about this, ok?" "Yeah, sure da... thanks"
Kelly and William were now running towards the train waving in a bored fashion to their parents, "I think I'm going to like this Hogwarts place… no parents…" said William "Ditto" said Kelly.
Laney was dragged into kings cross station by her mum (A.N. you see, her mother is a bit of a control freak) "Mum, stop dragging me! Just give me the train ticket I'll get to the platform my self" Laney, who was quite frankly tired of being dragged around, said. "Okay honey, you just run thru the barrier between platform 3 and platform 4, alright?" Her mother said. A big and loud 'WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?' could be heard through the station. "Honey be quiet!" Miss Smith was blushing from embarrassment. "Sorry Mum." Laney said, looking down. "It's alright honey, now" her mother pointed to the barrier in-between the platforms. "You see that spot you just walk through it and you're there. Send me an owl Hon, alright?" her mother asked. "Yeah mum I'm gone!" With that Laney headed towards the barrier that led to platform 9¾.
Calmly, you see Laney was a calm person; Laney walked thru the barrier and stepped onto Platform 9¾. The place was buzzing with activity, parents saying good bye to their children, kids saying hello to their friends. Laney was feeling lost.
"… so, Will, mate we just have to find a nice little drummer!" A girl with sleek straight black hair was saying to her friend. The girl was dressed in a pair of cropped black pants that had various straps strapped on them, her white collard shirt was open in the top two buttons showing the chocker and other necklace she had on.
"Yeah, whatever you say Kells…" the guy, Will? Said. He was dressed in a pair of dark blue jeans and a black t-shirt that read 'I'm Magical!' his hair was a honey brown.
SMACK! The girls hand connected with the back of his head.
Laney burst out in giggles. Both heads turned black hair swirled.
"What's so funny?" the guy asked.
Laney paled. "Uh… Nothing… really!"
"Oh, don't mind Will's hostility! He hasn't heard of being civil."
"Uh…Sorry, didn't mean to be snappy."
"So you're a first year too?"
"Yeah…"
"Well, we should probably board the train, come one we'll sit together!"
"Cool."
Note: This story takes place at the same time as HP same year.
HP and friends will be seen in future chapters.
I hope that you liked this… it's one of the longest chapters I've ever written, 4 pages on word…
I'm looking for a beta, so please e-mail me if you'd like to beta!