You know when you meet those people that are rude to you, no matter what. No exceptions? Yeah, well I met a lady like that today. Her name is Anastasia Middleton and if she weren't the mother of one of my friends, I would've slapped her. She's pure blood and she hates muggles and muggle borns. So when I showed up in Quality Quidditch Supplies in Diagon Alley today with my friend Hermione Granger, who is a muggle born she turned to us and started talking down about my family, saying we're a disgrace to all pure bloods. Ugh, I would've slapped her so hard for that one but her daughter, and one of my friends Kaitlin was standing right behind her, so I resisted. Kaitlin gave her a lecture about it though. Hah! Serves her right!
Anyway, now that I've ranted, I'll introduce myself. My name is Charlotte Victoria Weasley, the seventh child born to Arthur and Molly Weasley, and twin sister to Ronald Weasley. I'm also the eldest of the two girls in our family, and my sister, Ginny is the youngest of our family. We live in a sort of unusual house I guess. Well, that's what Hermione and Harry tell me anyway. Because our family is so big, mum and dad have added a lot of rooms in weird places onto our house so it's not exactly straight up and down on the sides, rooms are poking out everywhere. Ron and I are the second set of twins born to our parents. Fred and George, the first set, are two years older than us. And then our brother, Percy, the serious one, was born two years before them. And then before that was Charlie and then before that was Bill. We aren't all always at home though, Charlie lives in Romania, training dragons and Bill lives in Egypt, working as a curse-breaker for Gringotts bank. The rest of us live at home, and during the summer, Harry and Hermione live with us too.
Percy, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny and I all go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where we met Hermione, Harry and Kaitlin. We have loads of other friends but you'll hear about them later on.
Harry is Ron's best friend and they are always playing Quidditch or Wizard's Chess or something like that. Harry is the son of Lily and James, and is the only person who has ever survived the killing curse, which in turn destroyed The Dark Lord (I refuse to say his real name) but last year, we found out The Dark Lord is trying to return to power and was control my sister Ginny through a diary. Weird, right?
Anyway, so now you know enough about me I can continue on about telling you my story and you can live the wonderful life of me. Yay!
I could hear Hermione entering the room but I was too tired to pay interest so I rolled over and placed another pillow over my head. I heard Ginny in the bed next to me groan and I couldn't help but smile a bit. We were so alike.
"Wake up girls; we have more shopping to do today." Hermione said, pulling the pillow of my head and pulling my doona off me. I groaned, slightly opening my eyes and letting in a tiny bit of light.
"What's the time?" I asked, sliding around and placing my feet on the cool, wooden floor.
"10 AM. Get up Ginny!" Hermione said and I watched as she grabbed Ginny's ankle and pulled her out of bed onto the floor. Ginny landed with a small, 'oof' and then an 'ow'. I chuckled lightly as I made my way over to my dresser.
"Not funny, Char." I heard Ginny mumble moments before a pillow hit the back of my head. I turned to Ginny with a glare then turned back to my dresser, deciding I didn't have enough energy to start an argument. I pulled out my jeans and t-shirt for the day and went into the bathroom to change. I know! How lucky are we? The Leaky Cauldron has bathrooms attached to all the rooms! Once I changed I came back out and saw Ginny had changed and was sitting on my bed, waiting for me along with Hermione.
"Ready?" Ginny asked and I nodded. We headed for the door and walked downstairs where we found almost my entire family sitting at the table. Hermione and I sat across from Fred and George, as I was next to Ron and Ginny sat next to George. Fred, George and Ron appeared to be snickering about another one of Fred and George's pranks.
"What now?" I asked, rolling my eyes at the three of them.
Ron snickered before answering, "Fred and George put a spell on Percy's Head Boy badge to read, 'Huge Butt'." He started a burst of laughter again, along with Fred and George and even Ginny let out a small giggle. I just rolled my eyes and tried not to smile.
"So what are you girls doing today?" Fred asked, biting into a bread roll off his plate.
I grabbed the roll of George's plate before answering, "Just going into Diagon Alley. We're actually going to buy our school books today, unlike yesterday." I grinned at George who rolled his eyes.
"Wow. That's wonderful fun" Ron replied, his voice thick with sarcasm. Ginny grabbed some food of George's plate and stood up along with Hermione.
"We're gonna leave. Before you three get us into mischief." Hermione stated and pulled at my arm to stand as well.
"See you guys later." I said, standing up and following Hermione and Ginny over to the fireplace. I grabbed my handful of floo powder before Hermione and Ginny and jumped into the fire place.
"Diagon Alley!" I stated clearly before throwing the powder to the ground and all too soon I felt the familiar sense of being sucked through a tube.
As I landed in the fireplace in Diagon Alley I saw Draco Malfoy, followed by Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson walking out of Flourish and Blotts. Draco noticed me as I walked out of the fireplace and smiled. I grinned and waved and he walked over to me and Blaise and Pansy followed.
"Hey Weasley." Draco said and I smiled.
"Hey Draco," I said and glanced and Blaise. "Blaise." I didn't bother turning to Pansy. She'd just come out with a smart remark. Blaise smiled at me and Pansy continued a glare that she had settled as soon as she laid her eyes on me.
"So what are you doing here?" He asked and I heard Ginny land in the fireplace behind me.
"Getting some stuff for school. You?" I replied casually as I heard Ginny's groan. She didn't like Draco, come to think of it not any of my friends did. But I did, he's nice to me.
"Bit late for school stuff don't you think?" He smirked. "Back to school in two days, Weasley." He said and I rolled my eyes.
"I know. But I like to delay my school shopping as long as possible" I said with a grin and then Hermione landed in the fireplace behind me.
"Well, I would love to hear this wonderful conversation continue but we have better things to do, Draco." Pansy butted in, her glare intensifying on me which I just rolled my eyes at. Draco said and half smiled at me.
"See you at school, Char." Draco said and I smiled.
"See ya" I replied and turned to Ginny and Hermione as Draco walked away, muttering something to Pansy.
"So where to first?" Ginny asked Hermione and I looked at Hermione expectantly.
"Flourish and Blotts. Books first." She grinned and Ginny and I sighed. Hermione laughed and skipped off to the store while Ginny and I reluctantly dragged our feet over there. As we walked in, I once again ran into Anastasia and Kaitlin Middleton. I said 'hi' to Kaitlin and her mum just gave me an evil glare. We continued to walk in and went to the counter, asking for our books each in turn. After we paid we walked back out and continued to browse Diagon Alley. As we reached the end of shopping trip we were tired and hungry. After using the floo network to get back to The Leaky Cauldron we lugged our things upstairs and Hermione left us in our room. I was just finishing putting my school books in my trunk Ginny cleared her throat. I turned to her and raised an eyebrow.
"Yes?" I asked and she glanced down at her own books seeming to re-arrange them.
"Is there something going on between you and Malfoy?" She asked I snorted.
"Definitely not" I replied, laughing.
"You sure?" She asked and for a second I felt disappointed that she would have to ask that.
"100% sure. Draco's just my friend. Nothing more." I said, ending the conversation and closed my trunk then walked out. As I walked out my room I heard Ron and Hermione yelling at each other and I couldn't help but grin to myself. I walked down the stairs and saw Harry standing with them.
"Harry!" I grinned at him and he grinned back.
"How've you been, Char?" He asked and I shrugged.
"Not too bad. Having to put up with this," I pointed at Hermione and Ron and he grinned. "You?" I asked as we walked over to have dinner.
"Nothing out of the ordinary" he replied as we sat down.
"Puh-lease. Harry Potter doesn't have an 'ordinary'" I snorted.
We continued our conversation well into the night, not leaving for bed until 11:30pm and once I went to bed I feel asleep immediately.