I am new to fanfiction, so I hope you like this. People say Fred and Hermione would be a good pairing and I understand that, but she fell for Ron, so this is a story of a girl slightly like Hermione and Fred and George. Please Review! Thanks!
The Invisible Girl- Year 1
Ever since Elsie MacDonald could remember, she was always an outcast. The other girls at school made fun of the way she dressed and the way she always had her head in a book. The teachers loved her however which made the bullying much worse, but Elsie couldn't care less about what they said about her. She lived with her father in a house that once must have been very grand, but now looked rather shabby. Despite the fact she was born and brought up in Scotland, her accent wasn't as strong as the other people at her school, who would throw things at her when she spoke. But Elsie knew that she was lucky not having any friends, otherwise they would know what she could do. How she could make things fly about her room at home by accident, or make the girls trip without touching them. No one knew about her strange powers apart from her and her father, and he was scared for his daughter, not knowing why she was able to do such extraordinary things. One day, everything became much clear.
"Elsie, can you get the post dear?" her father calls from the kitchen and she hurries to the door and rummages through it, wondering if there has been any letters from her grandparents. Ever since her mother died when she was 7, Elsie's grandparents wrote letters frequently, making sure that their only grandchild was safe and happy, and she was, although she did think about her mother a lot. Whilst flicking through the many letters for her father Elsie came across a letter addressed to her in spindly, elegant green pen.
'Miss Elsie MacDonald,
Flinders Lane,
Muthill,
Perth' Elsie set her fathers papers on the table before turning her letter over in her hands. There was a red wax seal with a strange crest on it and she opened the letter curiously. Inside she found several pieces of parchment, which was strange, it was like the paper she found in those old books she liked to read in the library.
'Dear Miss MacDonald,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted for 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'
Elsie stopped reading and read the letter again and again several times. Witchcraft and wizardry? She was a witch? That was how she could do all those peculiar things!
"Father!" she cried hurrying to his side,
"What is it dear?" he asked her patiently as she thrust the letter at him quickly. He began to read and his eyes glazed over in shock and his mouth fell open, he sat there rereading it for at least a quarter of an hour before he looked up at her.
"Do you want to go?" he asked her uncertainly and she nodded eagerly,
"Yes father, imagine having a witch in the family! All the things I will be able to do and to learn! It will be fascinating don't you think?" she asks him, her eyes bright in wonder.
"Then if you want to go then you must." He says proudly and she beams before reading the other letter which has the list of books and equipment she will need for the year and also directions to get to a place in London called Diagon Alley.
That month Elsie and her father went to Diagon Alley. She and her father had never been to London before so they got very lost but found themselves in a dingy pub called The Leaky Cauldron. They went round the back and the barman Tom took out a wand which Elsie admired silently. The brick wall disappeared leaving Elsie and her father free to wander the busy, bustling street filled with shops of everything from books to wands to owls and potion ingredients and much more. She got everything she needed, plus some extra books on the History of witchcraft and wizardry and more to fully acquaint herself to the new world she found herself loving much more than her old one. Her robes made her feel smart for once and not odd as her normal clothes made her feel. Her father bought all her clothes, and so she had developed a strange sense of fashion, and even now, many people were casting her odd looks as she walked with her father down the alley to Ollivander's.
"Hogwarts?" the man asks, his white fluffy hair and pale eyes round as he takes out his tape measure and measures her arm and fingers and round her head. He hands her a black case with a wand inside. It looks basic but to her it's extraordinary, she picks it up and it emits golden sparks from the end.
"Let me see, Hawthorn and unicorn hair." He says as I place it back in the case. Elsie's father pays the man in the thick gold galleons that was explained to them both by the goblins in Gringotts and her father opened a vault there for his daughter and moved all his daughter's savings there for her. For the rest of the holidays Elsie was absorbed in her school books and learnt about an evil dark wizard who was thwarted by a baby called Harry Potter.
'How could a baby stop such an evil wizard?' she thought silently to herself after finishing the chapter on Lord Voldermort. By September the first, Elsie had finished reading all her books and was prepared to embark on her education. She was sure that she would need to catch up on a few things at Hogwarts, but she felt better prepared now, learning all the incantations and wand gestures much better than before. However she knew not to practice them until she was on the train to Hogwarts for apparently if you used magic out of school or broke the wizarding law, you would be sent to an awful prison for witches and wizards called Azkaban.
Elsie and her father had to go to London several days before September the first, because it was a long way to travel from Perth, so they were well on time at Kings Cross station, but her father was worried.
"What platform is it again?" he asks her taking out his pocket watch,
"Nine and three quarters." She chirped but her father glanced at her sadly. He knew that there was no such platform, but he went along with it anyway. Suddenly his daughter spun around and watched as a plump red haired lady led her many red haired children along the platform.
"Come on Fred, George, or you'll be late. You don't want to miss your first day at Hogwarts." She says and Elsie turns to her father,
"I'll take it from here father, I'll see you during the holidays I expect." She say taking charge of the trolley and hurrying away after the lady. She watched tentatively as the eldest boy there, with cuts up his arms, ran towards the barrier and went right through it. Elsie's mouth opened slightly in awe, but she shut it before hurrying forwards to the woman.
"Excuse me Mrs!" she calls and the plump red haired woman turns to face her, "I was wondering whether you could tell me how to get onto the platform?" she said very quickly, well aware that the woman's children all had their eyes on her.
"Is it your first time to Hogwarts too?" she asks kindly and Elsie nodded quickly, "It's Fred and George's first time too." She says looking at two boys who were the same age as Elsie and identical, down to the last freckle. "Well you have to walk straight at the wall between platforms nine and ten. If you're scared dear, then I would take it at a run." She says warmly, but Elsie, who was never afraid of anything, stuck her nose in the air proudly,
"I'm not scared." She says and huffily walks calmly towards the barrier, although she does shut her eyes as she walks through it.
She moves away from the barrier in case someone tries to run through and knocks her but then gets a sight of the Scarlet steam engine. Elsie's mouth curves into a grin as she takes it in. There are children older and younger than her and parents saying goodbye to their children. Some people have toads and rats and an all manner of other creatures but Elsie is happy with her tawny owl who sits asleep in her cage on the trolley. Elsie named her Margot after her mother but some kind elderly looking wizards come forward and help get her trunk onto the train and Elsie then tries to find a seat but the only one free is in a compartment filled with the boys whose mother she asked for help earlier on. She knocked quietly on the compartment door before opening it and peering in,
"Do you mind if I sit there. I can't find another seat." She says loudly to the oldest of the four. There are the twins who are the youngest, the one with scars up his arms who must be the eldest and the middle one with glasses on the end of his nose, looking rather pompous.
"Of course, please sit down. Let me help with your trunk." He says carting it in and stowing it away for her.
"Thank you." Elsie says graciously, sitting down beside him,
"I'm sorry, how rude of me not to introduce myself. I'm Percy Weasley, and these are my brothers Charlie and Fred and George." He says shaking her hand and she smiles at them. Charlie returns it but the twins are too busy trading some strange cards.
"What are those?" she asks curiously and the twins look up at her,
"You've never seen chocolate frog cards?" one of them says, judging by the 'G' on his hand knitted jumper she guessed he was George.
"I'm muggle born." She explains using a word she had picked up from her books.
"Oh, here." Says Fred throwing her one and she catches it, "You can start collecting, each has a famous witch or wizard on them." He says smiling friendly and she opens up the packet and finds a frog inside and it hops away.
"Can you eat them?" she asks and they laugh at her as she turns red and she reads her card. She got Albus Dumbledore.
The rest of the train journey is great fun. She gets on well with Percy who tells her more about the different subjects and teachers and rules and the different houses.
"You'd better be in Gryffindor." George says,
"Why?" Elsie replies taken aback,
"Well we're bound to be. Our parents were, and so was Bill. He's left now, working for Gringotts, but so are Percy and Charlie." Fred explains,
"I would like to be in Gryffindor, wasn't Professor Dumbledore a Gryffindor?" she asks and Charlie nods,
"We have Professor McGonagall for our head of house. She's strict but she's fair." He says and she nods,
"I would definitely like to be in Gryffindor then." She says and they smile fondly at her.
"We'd better get change into our robes." Charlie says jumping to his feet and Elsie grabs her school clothes from her trunk and heads to the bathroom to change before returning to the compartment where the boys sit ready.
"Are you excited?" Fred asks and she nods urgently,
"Are you?" she asks the twins who nod in unison,
"If you're in Gryffindor though then at least we'll know someone in our dormitory and classes." George adds,
"That would be an upside. We stay in dormitories do we? That will be fun, like having friends." Elsie says,
"You already have friends." Fred says smiling at her and she returns it fully. She had never had friends before, and now she had and it was a happy feeling.
They leave their luggage on the train as Charlie and Percy instruct and they hop off the carriage and onto the platform.
"You three must go and find Hagrid, we'll see you at the start of term feast." Percy bellows over the crowd and so Fred, George and I push through the crowd as a large, giant of a man shouts above the noise.
"Firs' years! Firs' years this way, come on!" he roars and as Fred, George and I near him he looks down upon me and I get a clear look at him. His whole face is almost covered with a black mane of hair and beard and he looks rather shabby.
"Not more Weasleys?" he teases the twins, his black eyes twinkling, and I am not scared of this man.
"Fred and George, we've heard lots of stories about you Hagrid." Fred says smiling,
"Alrigh' then. I hope you behave as well as Percy is all I'm sayin. An' who are you?" he asks me kindly,
"I'm Elsie, it's very nice to meet you." I say holding out a hand and he takes it in his huge dustbin size one and shakes it.
"Well I like you Elsie. Don't you be lettin' these boys be a bad influence on you." He says and I smile brightly up at him and he leads all the first years towards a lake and we get into little boats as Hagrid bellows orders out to us. I get into one with Fred and George and the boats start moving by themselves magically, but Fred and George are mucking about with each other and they almost knock me overboard.
"Oi! Don't me messin' around of you'll get points knocked off your hous' before you even start." Hagrid warns them as the look at me apologetically.
"Sorry Elsie." They whisper together,
"Don't mention it." She replies gratefully, shuffling along the bench so she is not as close to the side of the boat.
"We were trying to find the giant squid." Fred explains grinning at her,
"Giant squid? They exist?" she asks baffled,
"And Dragons and house elves and lots of other creatures. We'll learn about them in school." George explains as her eyes widen.
"There y'are. That's Hogwarts fer you." Hagrid announces as the large castle appears in view. It looks ancient and medieval, with lights streaming from the many windows. It has many turrets and spires and looks beautiful and strong.
"Wow."
"It's so big!" squeals the other people in her year as they near the docks. We walk up a flight of stone steps until we reach a huge door.
"Everyone here? Good." Hagrid says before knocking three times on the door.