A Word from the Author: Hello everyone, it's jediclonecowgirl, with a new project. It's kinda like a beforehand-fiction for an ucoming project. One of the OC's in this project writing a diary about her time at Hogwarts and being friends with Harry Potter...*grins*
Why do fathers always think, that their daughters need to keep a diary? I'll never like the look, he gave me, when I found this thing between my birthday presents. He gave me that "I chose this especially for you"-look, as I had pulled of the wrapping paper. Matter-of-factly I never wanted to write a word in this thing, but my mother urged me to do so, since I would have something ahead of me, that I probably would want to write down. Maybe I should start the whole thing with introducing myself: My name is Sally Amanda Joker. I am eleven years old and I am a half-blood witch just like my twin Samantha Alyssa Joker. We are going to start our first year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry soon, I mean it's like the end of August, we turned eleven on May and out acceptance letters came a few days ago. When I am already getting started, I can also tell about the rest of my family.
Next to Samantha I have two brothers. One is older and one younger. Their names are Jack and Roland and then there is my mother Amanda and my aunt Alyssa...and there is also my father Robert Joker. The guy's a muggle (non-magic people). The rest of us are either wizards or witches. Maybe one would say, that we are a little messed up, but everyone loves each other and gives his best. Still...it was a nasty shock for my dad, when he found out, that my mum was a witch. I like to imagine his face from that day. Samantha and I are close...well...as close as twins with magical powers probably can be. That's why I hope, that we get in one house together. There are four houses: Gryffindor, which symbolies courages, Hufflepuff, which symbolizes kindness, Ravenclaw, which symbolizes smartness and Slytherin. Officially they say, that the cunning people wind up there, but I see it as the house of evil. There are less witches and wizards, who went bad, who weren't in Slytherin.
We come from a family full of Ravenclaws. Aunt Alyssa was the first to break tradition with houses. She went to Hufflepuff. Other than that? ALL RAVENCLAWS! Jack, mum and everyone else. Roland is still too young to attend, but probably he will also wind up in Ravenclaw. Jack has already left Hogwarts and became a curse-breaker for Gringotts, the wizard bank. I never quite understood, why he thought, that this is so cool, but Sammie, as I sometimes call my twin, is completely fascinated with it. Back in the day he was captain of Quidditch (popular sport for magical people) at Ravenclaw, but he always got along well with people from other houses...especially Gryffindor. There was one thing he always said about Quidditch: "I am never going to understand, why the houses always bicker about a game everyone should enjoy togehter". Maybe he said that, because he often hung with the Gryffindors back in the day. They ofthen went making themselves enemies in Slytherin He sometimes said, that Sammie and I had best chances to wind up in Gryffindor. Gotta end now. Dinner time. My mum always gets angry, when we not come at once, when she calls us for dinner. Sometimes Samantha, Jack, Roland and I push her limits, but I am too tierd to do so today.
Yours Sally Joker
Dear Diary.
That sounds weird to write! Dear Diary...heh. Jack is going to take us to Diagon Alley tomorrow to buy our school stuff. The meeting point to do shopping...at least for wizards and witches. Our dad's okay with it. Being a muggle in a family full of magical people might be strange to him, but we still enjoy the normal happiness of family life, as my father says. Big house, great kids, beautiful wife. He excatly put it that way. He enjoys watching us playing Quidditch. We sometimes play it in our garden, but we play an alternate version, since we can barely put a team togehter. Each team has seven players. We mostly play two on two. Almost always it's Sammie and me against Jack and Roland. Roland is catastrophical and Jack is good and the skills of Sammie and me are average. At least that's how WE put it, since Roland always says, that we could make the Quidditch team of our house one day. If we don't get ourselves expelled in our first year, but why should that happen?
We might be a bit hard to handle every now and then...okay we are hard to handle very often, but it's not like we are comitting crimes or anything. When we are angry, you already see it, when you are standing 5 kilometers away and sometimes we "accidently" let magical firework fly in our living room, but that's nothing serious. At least not in our point of view. Maybe the teachers at Hogwarts have a different view of that, but mum and aunt Alyssa always keep telling us, that, if they were really this dead serious about pranks, four boys, who were in mum's year, aunt Alyssa is one year younger, would've gotten themselves expelled by the end of mum's third year.
I would like to know who these boys have been. My mother doesn't have many memories of them, but she remembers, that she and one of those guys were dating in her third year.
Yours
Sally Joker
Ending Word: Well...the diary is officially going. I hope you liked the first chapter and I will be more specific to the things, that happen before the year really starts, then I was in the first book of "Legacy of Windy". I hope you leave some reviews behind and now all I have left to say is bye, bye and mischief managed.