FINALLY! I finally finished the second one! Honestly the second is my least favourite out of all them, still good but always the last one I pick to watch (If I'm not watching in order that is).
My wifi is slow so don't get upset if I take a day or so to upload all the chapters. Hopefully it'll all be done in the next few hours.
So, I know I still have number three to go, but I want to start thinking about it now. There are many gaps that are going to need to be filled in the forth book, Goblet of Fire, due to the Triwizard Tournament. I was wondering if there was anything you guys would like to read, ideas I can use to fill those gaps. Was also wondering who you guys are sort of expecting to take Skylar to the Yule Ball?
Anyway! Hope you enjoy my second Rosenwald Book!
Chapter 1:
The sun shone down in the summer afternoon, beaming onto the field that sat with hedges on two sides, the other two opened up to gardens and a few seats for spectators. There were six tall goal posts standing out of the ground, round hoops on the tops, three standing at either end of the field. A laughing yell sounded in triumph from one end before there was a sudden wind as something blurred past in a hurry.
"Get back here!"
"Don't let him shoot!"
Several more objects shot past through the air in blur of brown and red. They zoomed from one end of the field to the other, dodging and weaving before a ball went flying towards the posts.
"Yes!" The ball went through the middle hoop easily. Two boys shared a high five, one with brown hair and one with flaming red as they sat on broomsticks hovering in the air.
"That's five to three." Another boy with brown hair, taller and older than the first, stood on the ground in the middle of the field and called towards the four down one end.
The four on broomsticks moved towards the one standing on the grass and landed lightly.
"Nice shot, Leon." Leon grinned at his older brother, shaking his windswept hair from his eyes. He was eleven years old, brown hair and hazel eyes.
"We're not made for chasers." One boy with flaming red hair and freckles over his face, said. He was stocky and built strong. He turned to another who was identical to him, his twin.
"I agree George, prefer bashing people with beaters." his twin nodded.
"Why am I not surprised." the last with red hair rolled his eyes. He was taller than the twins but younger, he too had freckles over his face and blue eyes with a long nose.
"Hey Ginny! What did you think?" Leon asked, turning to look to one side of the pitch. Two girls were sitting there on one of the benches with a plate of sweets between them, laughing. One had flaming red hair like her brother's, with brown eyes, and the other auburn curls and eyes like bright sapphires.
"Good job!" Ginny smiled as the older red-heads laughed at the younger boy. His brother, who'd been keeping count, rolled his eyes as the auburn-haired girl giggled. He too had brown hair and hazel eyes, being an older version of Leon. This left their sister to be the odd one out.
"You're sure to get on the team if there's a space Leon." she said to her younger brother.
"That's the goal!" he said proudly.
"Too bad first years can't get on the team." George shrugged "Wont that crush his dream, Fred."
"Like a bug under a book." Fred nodded.
"Harry got on the team in his first year." Leon said looking annoyed. He was much smaller than the twins and looked rather funny scowling at them.
"Yeah but have you seen the boy fly?" his brother asked "Besides, McGonagall was desperate." he shrugged
"Touché Nicholas." Fred nodded.
"Speaking of Harry, Sky, have you heard from him?" the taller redhead asked, turning towards the girls. They'd gotten up from the bench they'd been sitting on to walk towards their brothers.
"No." Skylar responded, holding the plate of eclairs to the boys who all took one. "You either?" she asked. He shook his head
"And Hermione hasn't heard from him either." Skylar mumbled "I'm a bit worried."
"He'll be fine, you and Ron worry too much." Fred said waving a hand dismissively, mocking his younger brother.
"I'm not worried." Ron said quickly
"Well I am. I haven't seen Hedwig all summer, nor have I received a response. And I've sent Trip, Mitchum and Cicil. They can't all be loosing the letters." Skylar believed.
"I wouldn't be surprised if Errol was." Ron rolled his eyes
"Yeah well he's ancient." George reminded them
"Wouldn't be an issue if Percy would just let me borrow Hermes." Ron complained
"Yeah well Prefect Percy has better things to do." Fred shrugged.
"Like suck up to my father." Nick added
"I've hardly seen him at all this summer." Leon confessed "I'm surprised he came today honestly."
"Yeah well he's hardly left his room." Ron shrugged as he shouldered his broom.
"Why?" Skylar asked
"He's Perfect Percy. Too busy studying probably." George shrugged
"Or shining his Prefect badge." Fred offered
"Yeah but he can only do that so many times." Ron believed
"This is Percy." Ginny reminded them. They all chuckled before a bell rang throughout the estate and they all turned in its direction.
"Must be dinner time." Nick said. The five boys moved over to the shed that stood in one of the corners of the field and put the brooms in their hands inside it, before they turned to the two girls who were waiting for them and they all moved through the garden.
The path was covered in pebbles, white and gleaming in the sun and lined with bushes of all sorts, flowers and hedges, different plants sitting in elaborate patterns for the garden.
A giant mansion came into view, bricks of deep brown and a roof with black tiles, several windows littering the very long walls and standing two stories tall with an attic clearly in the roof space.
The seven children moved to the right side, past a large wall covered in windows that exposed a ballroom beyond and around to a patio. A table and chairs sat here by a door that lead into the kitchen. Beside the door was a giant fireplace in the wall, though it wasn't lit as the air was too warm from the summer weather.
The glass table was groaning under dishes that covered it, all sorts of different foods covering it as five people sat around the table. One was a boy with horn-rimmed glasses, red hair and freckles. He was lanky and tall like Ron was and in deep conversation with a man who had brown hair, inherited by his sons, and bright blue eyes which matched his daughter's. Beside him was a beautiful women with hazel eyes and auburn curls, currently pulled back into a pony tail. She was having a discussion with two adults with vivid red hair like their children. A plump women, smaller than her sons and a tall man with balding hair.
The children all moved to join the parents, Nathaniel and Dominique Rosenwald and Molly and Arthur Weasley with their third eldest son Percy.
"We were wondering if you were ever going to get off those brooms." Nathaniel grinned, breaking in his conversation with Percy.
"You mean we had a choice?" Nick, Fred and George chorused, earning laughs from Ginny, Skylar, Leon and Ron.
"Quick let's go back!" Leon said jumping back to his feet.
"Sit." Dominique said and Leon sighed heavily and sat himself as he dropped his head. The two girls giggled at them and Leon looked at Ginny before grinning proudly. Fred, George and Nick sat themselves down as well.
"So, who did win?" Nathaniel asked
"We did." Leon and Ron chorused.
"The beaters aren't up to chaser standards it seems." Nick shrugged and the two twins shrugged.
"Didn't you two join in, Skylar, Ginny?" Dominique asked as she pulled out a length of wood from her pocket and waved it, twitching the wand for the food began to distribute itself over everyone's plates. The spoons floated in mid air and the plates lifting off the tables to receive the food as if like puppets of strings.
"They never let me play with them." Ginny admitted, looking annoyed.
"And I'm not going to let Ginny sit out by herself." Skylar shrugged
"Why can't she play?" Molly Weasley snapped at her brothers
"We don't want her getting hurt." Fred said quickly
"Rough game Quidditch." George nodded
Skylar and Ginny shared a look and rolled their eyes but Molly smiled.
"I'm glad you're looking out for your baby sister." she said. Ron gapped at his mother and turned to the two girls. They both shrugged.
"Mumma's favourite." Skylar said before they all began to dig into their food.
The Rosenwald Family were an old pureblood line of wizard and witches. Nathaniel Rosenwald, the head of the family, was Head of the Auror Office, head of the dark wizard catchers, at the Ministry of Magic, the government of Witches and Wizards. His wife was an Auror as well but had been off from going into the office often due to her three children being at home. This year however, her youngest would be going to school and she was returning to work with her husband.
Nicholas was the oldest, being fourteen years old. Skylar was next at twelve, almost thirteen. The youngest was Leon, at eleven. Nicholas and Skylar had both attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Nicholas for three years previously and Skylar for one. Leon was to be heading for his first year at the beginning of September.
The Weasleys were also a pure-blooded family of wizards. Arthur Weasley worked in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts office at the Ministry like Nathaniel did. Molly stayed home as the two of them had seven children. The oldest two, Bill and Charlie had already left school and home, and were off doing their preferred jobs as a curse breaker for Bill and working with dragons for Charlie. The Rosenwald children were yet to meet Bill as he'd left school before they met the family. Charlie however they'd met three years pervious when he'd been going into his second last year.
After Charlie was Percy, he had a habit of constantly engaging in conversation with Nathaniel as he wanted to have a career with the Ministry. He was going into his sixth year at Hogwarts. The twins, Fred and George Weasley were next and were in the same year as Nick and good friends with the boy. The parents had known one another for years but the friendship between Nick and the twins had started the two families off in their close friendship.
Ron was next in the Weasley family, the same age as Skylar and in the same year. The two were good friends at Hogwarts, having completed their first year together along with their friends Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. Harry Potter the only boy to have survived the killing curse after the most famous dark wizard of the age, known as Lord Voldemort, though no one said his name out loud, had tried to kill him.
Ginny was last of the Weasleys and the only girl. She was going to Hogwarts in September for her first year along with Leon. She adored Skylar and Skylar loved her back just as much. Leon had an admiration for Ron but was, to everyone's knowledge, crushing on Ginny.
"So if you weren't playing Quidditch what were you two girls doing?" Mr Weasley asked
"Talking." Skylar shrugged
"About what?" Dominique wondered
"Let me guess," Fred began
"Harry." Ron nodded and Ginny blushed.
"Harry?" Dominique wondered
"She wont stop talking about him." Leon mumbled looking disappointed.
Ginny shrugged as Skylar had a hand over mouth trying to hide her giggles as she sat between Ginny and Leon.
She cleaned her throat before stopping the parents was questioning further.
"Mum, if we don't hear from Harry can we go and get him?" she asked "I'm worried about his silence."
"None of you have heard from him?" Nathaniel asked looking concerned.
Skylar and Ron shook their heads.
"I've been getting Hermione's letters but not Harry's. It's just radio silence." Skylar said
"Me too, and Hermione said she hasn't heard from Harry either." Ron said "I've asked him to stay with us like twelve times but I don't receive an answer."
"And considering that his family don't seem very hospitable I doubt it's cause he's having too much fun to answer." Skylar said thinking
"If anything you'll find the Dursleys would be stopping him from answering." Dominique admitted. "I met Petunia once, before she was married to that Dursley, she hated anything she counted abnormal. Basically cut Lily out for being a witch."
"Sounds like Slytherins not liking muggle-borns?" Skylar said looking quizzical.
"Exactly like that actually."
"But Muggles can't intercept the owls can they?" Leon said
"I highly doubt it." Nathaniel added
"You don't think he's just busy?" Molly asked
The two twelve year olds shared a look.
"No." they both said.
"I'm sure he's fine." Arthur said "You'll hear from him soon."
"It's been almost two months dad." Ron said
"And you said you weren't worried." Fred smirked. Ron's ears went red, something that happened when he was embarrassed.
"Well I didn't think Harry would isolate himself and ignore our letters. And he's clearly taking them because the owls are coming back without them." Skylar said
"It is rather worrying." Molly nodded "Maybe we should go and take a look in on him, just make sure he's okay." she said to Dominique.
"Well if he doesn't respond soon we'll go shall we?" she agreed and Molly nodded.
Skylar smiled, happy by this arrangement as they dug into their food.
"So, Leon, excited to be going to Hogwarts? I know Ginny is." Arthur began.
And Leon launched into his excitement, Ginny joining in as they expressed things they were looking most forward to.
"Especially after the year Skylar and Ron had last year." They both chorused. The two in question shared a smirk.
Last year had been all over the place for the two of them, in their first week Harry had been subjected to a Wizard's Duel that hadn't gone ahead, but ended in the discovery of a three-headed dog named Fluffy, who belonged to the Hogwarts gamekeeper. From there a troll broke into the school, someone was trying to rob the school, a man named Nicholas Flamel hid a Philosopher's stone, which was the object being sought, and the teachers had placed enchantments all over as protection, which the two had broken through along with Hermione and Harry. Not to mention they had smuggled an illegal dragon from Hogwarts to Romania with the help of Ron's older brother Charlie.
"Well it's not like things can get much worse." Skylar shrugged and several chuckled.