A Twist of Fait
By: Kali "Fait" Wightman
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone but Fait, Andrew Tahoi and their
family. Everyone else belongs to J.K. Rowling, so please don't sue me
because I pretty much have nothing except for a few copied swing cds.
All Gaelic I found at Ceatar.org.
A/N: This is my first Harry Potter fic, and I probably won't have a
ton of time to work on it since I have about three Newsies fics
already going, but I'll do my best. Also, I should warn you that I
have changed a good bit of Rowling's story out (sorry, no flying car()
It just works best with the story. You'll see.
Andrew Wightman woke up to 95 pounds of little sister jumping on him. "Oaf
Catrìonag, fàg meòg lomarcan!" (Oaf Cate leave me alone) "Ag, sgoil siuthad jiu! (school begins today) and speak English would you?"
His little sister Caitlin replied.
"Tha ma duilich Fait (I'm sorry Fait) but you did just wake me up, and
aren't you a little old to be excited about school?" He teased. "But this is different Andréa!" she said calling him by his Gaelic name.
"Who's idea was it to adopt you anyhow?"
"Mum's." "Memo to self, tell Mum to take her back." He muttered to himself. "Go away
and let me get dressed!"
"Aye bràthair cagaran." (Yes brother darling.) She said leaving the
room. (A/N: Sorry about all the Gaelic and I hope the translations
help, I won't be using it much throughout the story, just a little
bit.)
She skipped downstairs and picked up her kitten, a present from her
grandmother for being the second wizard in the family. "Morning Tahoi,
did you sleep well lad?" she asked the kitten. The cat answered that
he had but now he was hungry. She laughed and waltzed into the kitchen
"Morning Mum, Da, Grandma." She said kissing the three adults.
"Good morning Caitlin, are you excited?" Her grandmother asked.
"Yes! Ooo, bacon! Can I have some, please?" she pleaded. "Not until your brother comes down." She ran upstairs to berate her brother
until he was ready.
He came down yawning. "Morning everybody."
"Good morning Andrew." His father greeted while Fait "helped" her
grandmother with the bacon. "Were you and your sister arguing in
Gaelic this morning?"
"It was all his fault, he woke up all grumpy and Gaelicy!" Fait said
sitting down at the table. Everyone laughed.
"Are you children packed yet?" asked their mother.
"I packed last night." Fait said proudly.
"I have most my stuff packed, I just need to put the rest of my clothes
in." Andrew said around a piece of bacon. "Well go finish now. We need to leave in half an hour if we're going to get
there by 10:45."
"Yes Da."
They were all packed and in the cab by 9:30. "Does everyone have
everything?" Mr. Wightman asked before they left. "Wait, Tahoi got
out!" Fait said running to get the cat. "I don't care if you saw a
squirrel, we have to go!" she scolded the kitten getting back in the
car.
*****************
They arrived at the train station at 9:45 "Oh dear, I really wanted to
see you on to the train, but we don't have time, I'm so sorry
Caitlin." Mrs. Wightman said upon their arrival.
"It's alright Mum, I'll see you next spring." She tried to be strong
but she felt tears well up in her eyes as she hugged her parents.
"Bannaght lhiat Caitlin, soaraid." (Goodbye Caitlin, farewell
blessings.)
"Soaraid Da. I love you." She said through her tears.
"Come on Fait, we'd better go." Andrew said taking his sister's hand.
He led her into the station until the came to platforms 9 and 10.
We're going to wizard's school by train?" Fait asked.
He laughed, "Yes, but we leave from platform 9 ¾."
"9 ¾, that doesn't even make sense!" Fait countered.
"It does if you're a wizard. Now, we just have to slip between them."
He walked up to the pillar and melted through.
Fait was mortified, she had no idea what to do. Then her brother
slipped right through. "See, it's not that hard, come on." He held her
hand and they gingerly slipped through onto platform 9 ¾.
*****************
A few boys about her brother's age, both with identical red hair and
freckles, quickly came over. "Sparks! How are you my man?" asked one
of the red heads.
"Hey Fred, Heya George! This is my little sister" He greeted the boys.
"Hi, Im Caitlin Potter, but friends call me Fait." She introduced
herself blushing.
"Fred Weasly and this is George. You said your names Potter eh? Any
relationship to Harry Potter?" he asked.
"Who?" Fate was very confused. Usually Andrew kept her up to date on
the important people in the wizarding world.
"You haven't told her about Harry?" George asked surprised.
"I figured it would be best if we talk to Dumbledore first." He
mumbled. "We don't you go introduce her to your brother and sister,
and we'll go find us a seat."While they were going to meat the twin's
family Fred asked her "So Fait, how old are you?"
"I'm twelve, I'm starting a year late because Dumbledore thought it
would be safer."
"It probably was, I'm sure your brother told you all about it." She
nodded. "In case he left any part out, Harry and Ron can fill you in
on the rest."
They came up to a bunch of red haired people. "Oy, Ron, Harry,
Hermione, come here."
Three kids about Fait's age came over. A tall red head who looked a
lot like Fred, a tall boy with messy black hair, and a girl with brown
frizzy hair. "Fait, this is my brother Ron and his friends Harry and
Hermione."
"Caitlin Potter or you can call me Fait." She said unnerved by their
odd looks.
"Well, I'll see you later Fait, but I've gotta go catch up to your
brother. Catch you later." He said flashing her a smile, she blushed.
The three invited her to share a compartment on the train with them,
and she agreed. They boarded the train just in time for it to leave.
*****************
"I should introduce you to my sister Ginny, she's your age." Ron said
when they were settled in their compartment.
"I doubt that," Fait replied, "I turned 12 July 15th."
"That's my birthday!" Harry yelled.
"Geeze," she said rubbing her ear, "I didn't know it was illegal to
have a birthday around here, sorry."
"No, I should be sorry, you just surprised me." From there the talk
turned to more normal things. Fait and Hermione were starting to
become quite good friends.
The food cart came by around noon. Ron figured this would be a good
time to breach the question that was on everyone's minds. "So Fait,
you're a Potter?"
"Aye, why does everyone find that so fascinating?" Before they had a
chance to explain Fred, George, and Andrew burst in.
"We've had enough. We've been stuck with that prig Malfoy giving us
crap about our family for the past hour, and we're sick of it!" Fred
said dramatically.
"What my brother is not saying is," George clarified, "Can we sit in
here with you?"
"I don't know, I wouldn't mind seeing Fred try to explain that one
again!" Ron said and they all burst out laughing.
"Shut up! If you'd had to deal with him you'd be like this too." Fred
defended himself sitting down next to Fait who was the only one not
laughing at him.
"So who is this Malfoy anyways?" she asked Fred.
"Malfoy is a second year twit who thinks that just because his father
is a Death-Eater and Snape loves him that he is in control of the rest
of the world, the little twit." Fred mumbled.
"He also hates the Weasly's because their great wizards that never
went over to the dark side." Andrew added in. All the Weaslys' ears
turned pink.
"Spark!" George said hitting him jokingly.
They had fun talking to the older boys and among themselves. Fait
finally fell asleep against the window after about 4 hours.
*****************
When she woke up it was starting to get dark. She looked at her watch
then remembered that it had broken. "Does anyone know what time it
is?"
"It's about 5:30, we should be there in about and hour." Hermione told
her. She heard a small voice coming from underneath Harry's seat.
"Hey Harry?"
"Yeah?" he said looking up from his game of wizard chess against
George.
"You're owl's hungry."
"Oh thanks." He said getting some owl treats out of his pocket then he
paused, "How do you know that?"
"She told me." They were all giving her that weird look again. "What?"
"My owl talked to you?" Harry asked her. He didn't look mad, just
confused.
"Yeah, what's wrong with that?"
He shook his head. "We really need to talk when we get to Hogwarts."
****************
Just like Hermione had predicted, the train started to slow an hour
later. They all peered out the window as the train stopped. Out across
a large lake, Fait could see the castle itself. "Welcome to Hogwarts!"
Fred told her, and they all started to pile out of the train.
She had no idea what she was supposed to do when she heard a loud
voice yell "Firs' Years, Firs' Years over here!" That'll be you Fait."
Hermione told her. She hurried over to where all the other first years
were standing. She felt out of place being the oldest. They were put
into boats and Fait found herself next to a little girl with red hair
and freckles. She figured this must be the youngest Weasly. "Hi, I'm
Caitlin, you can call me fait."
"Ginny Weasly, I think you met my brothers." She said in greeting.
"I did, I think you've met my brother Andrew too."
"Sparks? Yeah, he's come to our house a couple of times. He's Fred and
George's only nice friend." Fait laughed and they had to duck as they
went under some rocks and up to a door.
"I'll be leaving ya now, but ya just go through those doors an' wait
fer Professor McGonagall." The large man instructed them. They all
filed in to wait.
Everyone was getting restless when the door opened and out stepped a
woman. "I am Professor McGonagall. Please follow me into the main hall
where you will be sorted.
Ginny turned to Fait "George told me it hurts a lot, and Fred said you
have to wrestle a troll!"
Fait laughed, "Sparkie says you just put on a singing hat and it tells
you where to go.
Another girl cringed, "I'd rather wrestle a troll!" This caused some
weak laughs.
Fait seemed to have the right of it. When they walked in they say a
three legged stool with a ragged old hat on it sitting in front of
four tables with what was probably the whole school sitting at them.
Fait found her brother sitting next to the Weasly twins and they gave
her thumbs up and Hermione mouthed good luck. Fait smiled. Before
anything else happened McGonagall came up behind her and told her that
she would be called by Wightman rather than Potter for now. She
nodded. Then a tear opened up in the hat, and it started to sing!
I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat,
Smartest hat you'll see,
The great founders of Hogwarts,
Gave a little job to me,
Just try me on,
Give it a try,
And I'll tell you where you must be,
Be it in Gryffindor?
Where the strong and Bravest strive,
Or in gentle Hufflepuff?
Who are glad just to be alive,
Will you be in Ravenclaw?
Where smartest are the best,
Or in old shrewd Slytherin?
Where they put your cunning to the test,
Just pop me on and you will see,
You don't need to fear,
Because I'm just a silly old hat,
And you'll just sit right here.
The hall burst out into applause, and McGonagall moved up beside the
stool. "Please come up when you're name is called. Bennett, Mallory!"
She put the hat on and after a few moments the hat shouted,
"Ravenclaw!"
There was a lot of cheering from that table. This continued as
McGonagall went down the list. There were only 17 in their year so she
quickly came to "Weasly, Ginny!"
"Go get 'em girl!" Fait whispered as Ginny passed her. She put the hat
on and almost right away it shouted,
"Gryffindor!"
The Gryffindor table erupted and she could just here Fred and George
yelling "She made it, She did it She did it!"
Then it was her turn, "Wightman, Caitlin!"
She slowly walked up to the stool and slipped the hat on her head.
'hmm, another Potter' a small voice said in her ear. 'You would be
good in any house, but since your brother did so well there I think
it'll be
"Gryffindor!"
She ran over to the table and was quickly enveloped in a huge hug from
most the Weaslys, her brother and Hermione. Finally when they all
settled down Dumbledore stood up. "I would like to remind everyone
that the forest is out of bounds, and no fireworks in the classrooms,
hallways, common rooms, restrooms, closets, halls, dungeons, towers or
anywhere else on school grounds," Fait could see him looking directly
at the Weasly twins and the stood up and bowed while everyone else
laughed, but Dumbledore wasn't finished yet, "and would Harry and
Caitlin Potter see me in my office after dinner." The plates then
filled with food and Harry and Fait exchanged uneasy glances.
****************
A/N: Well, that's the end of the first bit. Sorry it's not as long as
I would like it to be, but it's 4:45 and I have school in like 4
hours. If you guys review I will be more likely to work on this, so
please review. All reviewers get skittles!
By: Kali "Fait" Wightman
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone but Fait, Andrew Tahoi and their
family. Everyone else belongs to J.K. Rowling, so please don't sue me
because I pretty much have nothing except for a few copied swing cds.
All Gaelic I found at Ceatar.org.
A/N: This is my first Harry Potter fic, and I probably won't have a
ton of time to work on it since I have about three Newsies fics
already going, but I'll do my best. Also, I should warn you that I
have changed a good bit of Rowling's story out (sorry, no flying car()
It just works best with the story. You'll see.
Andrew Wightman woke up to 95 pounds of little sister jumping on him. "Oaf
Catrìonag, fàg meòg lomarcan!" (Oaf Cate leave me alone) "Ag, sgoil siuthad jiu! (school begins today) and speak English would you?"
His little sister Caitlin replied.
"Tha ma duilich Fait (I'm sorry Fait) but you did just wake me up, and
aren't you a little old to be excited about school?" He teased. "But this is different Andréa!" she said calling him by his Gaelic name.
"Who's idea was it to adopt you anyhow?"
"Mum's." "Memo to self, tell Mum to take her back." He muttered to himself. "Go away
and let me get dressed!"
"Aye bràthair cagaran." (Yes brother darling.) She said leaving the
room. (A/N: Sorry about all the Gaelic and I hope the translations
help, I won't be using it much throughout the story, just a little
bit.)
She skipped downstairs and picked up her kitten, a present from her
grandmother for being the second wizard in the family. "Morning Tahoi,
did you sleep well lad?" she asked the kitten. The cat answered that
he had but now he was hungry. She laughed and waltzed into the kitchen
"Morning Mum, Da, Grandma." She said kissing the three adults.
"Good morning Caitlin, are you excited?" Her grandmother asked.
"Yes! Ooo, bacon! Can I have some, please?" she pleaded. "Not until your brother comes down." She ran upstairs to berate her brother
until he was ready.
He came down yawning. "Morning everybody."
"Good morning Andrew." His father greeted while Fait "helped" her
grandmother with the bacon. "Were you and your sister arguing in
Gaelic this morning?"
"It was all his fault, he woke up all grumpy and Gaelicy!" Fait said
sitting down at the table. Everyone laughed.
"Are you children packed yet?" asked their mother.
"I packed last night." Fait said proudly.
"I have most my stuff packed, I just need to put the rest of my clothes
in." Andrew said around a piece of bacon. "Well go finish now. We need to leave in half an hour if we're going to get
there by 10:45."
"Yes Da."
They were all packed and in the cab by 9:30. "Does everyone have
everything?" Mr. Wightman asked before they left. "Wait, Tahoi got
out!" Fait said running to get the cat. "I don't care if you saw a
squirrel, we have to go!" she scolded the kitten getting back in the
car.
*****************
They arrived at the train station at 9:45 "Oh dear, I really wanted to
see you on to the train, but we don't have time, I'm so sorry
Caitlin." Mrs. Wightman said upon their arrival.
"It's alright Mum, I'll see you next spring." She tried to be strong
but she felt tears well up in her eyes as she hugged her parents.
"Bannaght lhiat Caitlin, soaraid." (Goodbye Caitlin, farewell
blessings.)
"Soaraid Da. I love you." She said through her tears.
"Come on Fait, we'd better go." Andrew said taking his sister's hand.
He led her into the station until the came to platforms 9 and 10.
We're going to wizard's school by train?" Fait asked.
He laughed, "Yes, but we leave from platform 9 ¾."
"9 ¾, that doesn't even make sense!" Fait countered.
"It does if you're a wizard. Now, we just have to slip between them."
He walked up to the pillar and melted through.
Fait was mortified, she had no idea what to do. Then her brother
slipped right through. "See, it's not that hard, come on." He held her
hand and they gingerly slipped through onto platform 9 ¾.
*****************
A few boys about her brother's age, both with identical red hair and
freckles, quickly came over. "Sparks! How are you my man?" asked one
of the red heads.
"Hey Fred, Heya George! This is my little sister" He greeted the boys.
"Hi, Im Caitlin Potter, but friends call me Fait." She introduced
herself blushing.
"Fred Weasly and this is George. You said your names Potter eh? Any
relationship to Harry Potter?" he asked.
"Who?" Fate was very confused. Usually Andrew kept her up to date on
the important people in the wizarding world.
"You haven't told her about Harry?" George asked surprised.
"I figured it would be best if we talk to Dumbledore first." He
mumbled. "We don't you go introduce her to your brother and sister,
and we'll go find us a seat."While they were going to meat the twin's
family Fred asked her "So Fait, how old are you?"
"I'm twelve, I'm starting a year late because Dumbledore thought it
would be safer."
"It probably was, I'm sure your brother told you all about it." She
nodded. "In case he left any part out, Harry and Ron can fill you in
on the rest."
They came up to a bunch of red haired people. "Oy, Ron, Harry,
Hermione, come here."
Three kids about Fait's age came over. A tall red head who looked a
lot like Fred, a tall boy with messy black hair, and a girl with brown
frizzy hair. "Fait, this is my brother Ron and his friends Harry and
Hermione."
"Caitlin Potter or you can call me Fait." She said unnerved by their
odd looks.
"Well, I'll see you later Fait, but I've gotta go catch up to your
brother. Catch you later." He said flashing her a smile, she blushed.
The three invited her to share a compartment on the train with them,
and she agreed. They boarded the train just in time for it to leave.
*****************
"I should introduce you to my sister Ginny, she's your age." Ron said
when they were settled in their compartment.
"I doubt that," Fait replied, "I turned 12 July 15th."
"That's my birthday!" Harry yelled.
"Geeze," she said rubbing her ear, "I didn't know it was illegal to
have a birthday around here, sorry."
"No, I should be sorry, you just surprised me." From there the talk
turned to more normal things. Fait and Hermione were starting to
become quite good friends.
The food cart came by around noon. Ron figured this would be a good
time to breach the question that was on everyone's minds. "So Fait,
you're a Potter?"
"Aye, why does everyone find that so fascinating?" Before they had a
chance to explain Fred, George, and Andrew burst in.
"We've had enough. We've been stuck with that prig Malfoy giving us
crap about our family for the past hour, and we're sick of it!" Fred
said dramatically.
"What my brother is not saying is," George clarified, "Can we sit in
here with you?"
"I don't know, I wouldn't mind seeing Fred try to explain that one
again!" Ron said and they all burst out laughing.
"Shut up! If you'd had to deal with him you'd be like this too." Fred
defended himself sitting down next to Fait who was the only one not
laughing at him.
"So who is this Malfoy anyways?" she asked Fred.
"Malfoy is a second year twit who thinks that just because his father
is a Death-Eater and Snape loves him that he is in control of the rest
of the world, the little twit." Fred mumbled.
"He also hates the Weasly's because their great wizards that never
went over to the dark side." Andrew added in. All the Weaslys' ears
turned pink.
"Spark!" George said hitting him jokingly.
They had fun talking to the older boys and among themselves. Fait
finally fell asleep against the window after about 4 hours.
*****************
When she woke up it was starting to get dark. She looked at her watch
then remembered that it had broken. "Does anyone know what time it
is?"
"It's about 5:30, we should be there in about and hour." Hermione told
her. She heard a small voice coming from underneath Harry's seat.
"Hey Harry?"
"Yeah?" he said looking up from his game of wizard chess against
George.
"You're owl's hungry."
"Oh thanks." He said getting some owl treats out of his pocket then he
paused, "How do you know that?"
"She told me." They were all giving her that weird look again. "What?"
"My owl talked to you?" Harry asked her. He didn't look mad, just
confused.
"Yeah, what's wrong with that?"
He shook his head. "We really need to talk when we get to Hogwarts."
****************
Just like Hermione had predicted, the train started to slow an hour
later. They all peered out the window as the train stopped. Out across
a large lake, Fait could see the castle itself. "Welcome to Hogwarts!"
Fred told her, and they all started to pile out of the train.
She had no idea what she was supposed to do when she heard a loud
voice yell "Firs' Years, Firs' Years over here!" That'll be you Fait."
Hermione told her. She hurried over to where all the other first years
were standing. She felt out of place being the oldest. They were put
into boats and Fait found herself next to a little girl with red hair
and freckles. She figured this must be the youngest Weasly. "Hi, I'm
Caitlin, you can call me fait."
"Ginny Weasly, I think you met my brothers." She said in greeting.
"I did, I think you've met my brother Andrew too."
"Sparks? Yeah, he's come to our house a couple of times. He's Fred and
George's only nice friend." Fait laughed and they had to duck as they
went under some rocks and up to a door.
"I'll be leaving ya now, but ya just go through those doors an' wait
fer Professor McGonagall." The large man instructed them. They all
filed in to wait.
Everyone was getting restless when the door opened and out stepped a
woman. "I am Professor McGonagall. Please follow me into the main hall
where you will be sorted.
Ginny turned to Fait "George told me it hurts a lot, and Fred said you
have to wrestle a troll!"
Fait laughed, "Sparkie says you just put on a singing hat and it tells
you where to go.
Another girl cringed, "I'd rather wrestle a troll!" This caused some
weak laughs.
Fait seemed to have the right of it. When they walked in they say a
three legged stool with a ragged old hat on it sitting in front of
four tables with what was probably the whole school sitting at them.
Fait found her brother sitting next to the Weasly twins and they gave
her thumbs up and Hermione mouthed good luck. Fait smiled. Before
anything else happened McGonagall came up behind her and told her that
she would be called by Wightman rather than Potter for now. She
nodded. Then a tear opened up in the hat, and it started to sing!
I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat,
Smartest hat you'll see,
The great founders of Hogwarts,
Gave a little job to me,
Just try me on,
Give it a try,
And I'll tell you where you must be,
Be it in Gryffindor?
Where the strong and Bravest strive,
Or in gentle Hufflepuff?
Who are glad just to be alive,
Will you be in Ravenclaw?
Where smartest are the best,
Or in old shrewd Slytherin?
Where they put your cunning to the test,
Just pop me on and you will see,
You don't need to fear,
Because I'm just a silly old hat,
And you'll just sit right here.
The hall burst out into applause, and McGonagall moved up beside the
stool. "Please come up when you're name is called. Bennett, Mallory!"
She put the hat on and after a few moments the hat shouted,
"Ravenclaw!"
There was a lot of cheering from that table. This continued as
McGonagall went down the list. There were only 17 in their year so she
quickly came to "Weasly, Ginny!"
"Go get 'em girl!" Fait whispered as Ginny passed her. She put the hat
on and almost right away it shouted,
"Gryffindor!"
The Gryffindor table erupted and she could just here Fred and George
yelling "She made it, She did it She did it!"
Then it was her turn, "Wightman, Caitlin!"
She slowly walked up to the stool and slipped the hat on her head.
'hmm, another Potter' a small voice said in her ear. 'You would be
good in any house, but since your brother did so well there I think
it'll be
"Gryffindor!"
She ran over to the table and was quickly enveloped in a huge hug from
most the Weaslys, her brother and Hermione. Finally when they all
settled down Dumbledore stood up. "I would like to remind everyone
that the forest is out of bounds, and no fireworks in the classrooms,
hallways, common rooms, restrooms, closets, halls, dungeons, towers or
anywhere else on school grounds," Fait could see him looking directly
at the Weasly twins and the stood up and bowed while everyone else
laughed, but Dumbledore wasn't finished yet, "and would Harry and
Caitlin Potter see me in my office after dinner." The plates then
filled with food and Harry and Fait exchanged uneasy glances.
****************
A/N: Well, that's the end of the first bit. Sorry it's not as long as
I would like it to be, but it's 4:45 and I have school in like 4
hours. If you guys review I will be more likely to work on this, so
please review. All reviewers get skittles!