Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own anything about Harry Potter. All belongs to J.K. Rowling, who did a fabulous job in creating this magical world.
Chapter 1:
"ROSE! HUGO! You're going to miss the train if you aren't down in the next 3 seconds!" Aunt Hermione screamed from door, tapping her foot impatiently as they were exactly four minutes late on schedule.
"COMING MOM!" They both rushed down the shiny marble steps, trudging their leather suitcases, into the dining room, where Lily, James, and Al were waiting with both annoyance and love.
Hermione turned to Ginny, who was apparently scolding James ahead of time for the pranks he'd play this upcoming year. Hermione looked at her with confusion, but then reassured herself knowing James, the prankster, named after both his grandfather and grand-godfather, was bound to do some kind of prank eventually.
"James Sirius Potter, if I hear as much as ONE prank from Neville, I guarantee your new LightRacer 3001 won't be the only thing vanished from your trunk," Ginny warned, "and Albus, try to keep an eye on him. Please?"
"Yeah, yeah Mom, don't worry! I'm not gonna do anything!" James put his hands up and slowly backed away. "Yeesh," James thought. "Why do you always blame me for everything!"
"BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS YOU!" The voices of Albus, Fred 2, Lily, Hugo, Rose, Aunt Hermione, Uncle Ron, Mom, Dad, and Teddy who just walked in all rang out in perfect unison.
"I swear, it's almost as if you practice that..." James trailed off, feeling both excited for Hogwarts, yet irritated that everyone always blamed him. "Then again," he considered, "it is always pretty much me. Not that I'd ever admit that."
Lily started to comment, "Mo-," but was cut off by Hugo's incessant hunger.
"I'M HUNGRY!" He blurted out. Everyone in the room turned to him, and turned back, bearing in mind this was nothing new. Hermione got up and quickly summoned a sandwich from the sleek black refrigerator, which was ecstatically set up by Arthur Weasley, who had an obsession with muggle appliances.
Lily started again, "D-," but was once again interrupted by Teddy.
"Has anyone seen my sugar quills? Or my dress robes? Or my Transfiguration paper? They were all just here right before breakfast! That was only ten minutes ago!" Teddy asked and panicking and rummaged through his suitcase. Fred and James snickered behind the dining table. He shot them a vicious glare, and his hair turned from a soft blue to a violent red. "WHERE DID YOU PUT THEM!"
Fred and James ran for cover, while Harry confronted James and sighed, "Hand them over boys." James hesitantly turned to his father, and reluctantly gave up the WWW "Missinator" packets. "Hmm," Harry thought, as he read the packet to himself, "Want to cause panic and commotion? Slip one of these into an unlucky recipient on a busy day, and watch as all of their important items vanish into this bag! 15 sickles per packet. Each packet is equal to one small item, weighing no more than 30 pounds."
He was about to question the boys, but felt something tugging at his robes. He looked down, and saw Lily, who was going to Hogwarts for the first time, with confusion and worry on her face. "What is it, sweetheart?"
"Daddy, when does the train leave?" She nervously asked.
"10:00, sweetheart." He continued to walk away when he felt that tug again. "Yes, dear?"
"Daddy, what time is it?" She questioned again.
"Oh honey dear, we've still got plenty of time.." Assuming so, he glanced at his watch, as it ticked three times, and the time on the watched changed to 10:01. "GREAT! The train to Hogwarts just left..." Everyone felt an odd de-ja-vu as he went into a eerily similar panic as Teddy.
Ginny sighed, and simply answered calmly, "No worries dear, I'll send a Patronus to Minerva saying we'll have to Floo."
After ten minutes, and after Hermione lectured and explained the process and importance of pronouncing the words correctly when stepping into the fire, everyone was finally ready to go.
"Fred, James, you two first!" With that Ginny ushered them into the fireplace, and went up in a zip.
"CReEeeAK!" A weird lurching sound came from the fire, but nobody was paying attention enough to notice. With that, Lily, Albus, Rose, Hugo, and Teddy stepped into the fire, watching his god-parents wave goodbye, unknowingly to them, for quite a while..
