The Unhappy Boy
Jason Frek and the Muggle Artifact

Chapter 1: The Unhappy Boy

They get no respect,

and there is no one they can connect.

Others tease them wherever they go,

this makes their days seem so slow.

No one would go with them to the dance,

cause one won't give them a chance.

Others reject their ideas,

But good ideas from them others fear.

They are hated because they are smart,

and abhorred if they are a retard.

If they are good in some things,

others ignore the fact and say they can't sing.

Why oh why do they don't have an opportunity,

or at least to this problem an immunity.

Jason shut his locker with an angry bang.  It was the lat day of school at Jefferson Memorial High School.  He walked down the hallway as he saw a group of kids pointing and laughing at him.

"Hey look it's Jason Frek the Freak!!" the kids shouted.

"Just go away you fucking retards!  Don't you have something better to do?" Jason shouted back.

"Well, it's the last day of school and I'm sorry we don't have enough money to go to vacation you rich snob" Well, that was true.  Jason's parents were rich, but they worked hard to get that money.  Both of his parents were really nice and always donated money to the poor.  These kids had no base to call Jason a snob. 

"Look at you, I bet if it wasn't for your prostitute of your mother, you would be wearing shags!" a teenage boy said mockly.

"How dare you call my mom a whore?" Jason replied, "she's a writer and a violinist!"

"Well, I daresay she is quite impressive, but a bit expensive... I had to give her fifty..." SMACK!

Jason threw a punch as hard as he can at the guy's face.  He fell down and a girl beside him helped him up.

"You'll pay for this Jason Frek the Freak!" the girl yelled as she beckoned her gang away from the boy.

Jason gathered his stuff and quickly walked outside the school.  He decided to walk to town and buy a computer game and have some coffee at Starbucks to cool him down.  He slowly walked passed blithe and joyful students as they ran home for the summer. 

After grabbing a cup of coffee from Starbucks, Jason looked around the town.  He never noticed the many small shops that surrounded both sides of Main Street.  One shop caught his interest. 

A small wooden sign hung above the door of a Victorian style house, and said "Fortune Telling and Magic Shop"

Jason, being a very scientific person did not believe in things like magic, but since he was so bored and lonely he decided to walk in the store.

The girl behind the counter looked like he was her age.  Jason's sad brown eyes stared into the girl's green eyes for a second.  She had a beautiful face.  Her brown, straight hair stopped near her waist.  The girl's figure was also quite fine. 

"Hi, my name is Martha, welcome to the Magic Shop, how can I help you?" she asked.

"Um... I don't know... I got bored so I decided to get my fortune told" Jason replied.

"Yes sir, please come this way," the girl nodded her head towards the back of the shop.  She led him into a small dark room with a small window on top.  There was a bookshelf with many hold books and a gigantic crystal ball on a small table.

Two wonderfully crafted chairs were on either side of the table.

"Please sit down sir," the girl said.

Jason sat down as Martha sat down on the other end.

"Please give me your hand"

Jason took out his hand from his pocket.  She gently grabbed his hand and looked at it.

"Hmmm.... you are born in March, are you not?" she asked

"Yes. How'd you know?"

                Martha smiled and looked at his hand more intensely now.

                "A dramatic change will about to happen very soon that will change your life forever...." Then the girl looked into the crystal ball, "You will fall in love with the girl you met or will meet today... I see a great revelation later on this week.... Great danger will come, but you will get pass it... I'm sorry I cannot see farther than that."

"Uhh.. thank you... Martha," said Jason.  This is ludicrous, he thought, how can all this interesting crap happen to him?  Well, he does kinda like Martha.... even though he just met her... "How much is it?" asked Jason. 

"Well, it's free if you buy something from the shop, but it's five dollars if you don't"

"That's a very good marketing idea," Jason said.

"Marketing?"

"Oh never mind"

Jason looked around the shop.  He never saw any thing weirder in his entire life.  There were wands and things labeled dragon's skin and unicorn hair and all weird stuff.  While looking he asked Martha, "Do you go to Jefferson Memorial High?"

"No, I go to Hogwarts," she said, "I only stay at my mother's shop in the summer.
                "Hogwarts?"

"Oh sorry, I didn't mean that, I meant I do go to Jefferson High."

"How old are you?"

"I just turned fifteen."

"I'm fifteen too, why didn't I see you around?"

"I don't know."

Jason picked up a wand and asked her, "Does this really work?"

"It works if you will believe it would work," she said.

Jason then looked at the corner, there was a book called, Magic for Beginners: A Guide to Magic for Non-Wizards.  He picked up the book and the wand; he walked to the counter.

"That would be fifteen dollars," she told Jason

Jason gave her the money.  He wanted to ask the strange girl if she wanted to do something this summer.  For most summers, it was very boring for Frank.  "Um, Martha, do you want to do something this summer... I'm not going anywhere...."

Before Jason even finished his sentence, Martha told him that she would.  They exchanged phone numbers and Jason walked out of the store.

He was in the happiest mood he had ever been in.  Jason walked to his huge house and ran up to his room.  He flipped through the first few pages, and went straight to the "how-to" section.  The book told him how to hold and wand, and how to cast a spell.  This is crazy, thought Jason; I must be very bored to be fooling around with non-existing clairvoyant objects.  Nevertheless, Jason gave it a try.

The book was telling Jason how to do the simplest spell, the light charm.  It was suppose to emit light off the tip of the wand.  "Lumos" said Frank.  Nothing happened.

"Lumos Lumos Lumos Lumos Lumos Lumos.... LUMOS.... LUMOS!!! DAMN IT!!! LUMOS!.... This damn thing won't work!!! LUMOS!!!"

"Can I give you a hand Jason?" asked Mrs. Amanda Frek, Jason's mother as she passed his room.

"Nothing mom, I just bought this dumb book and a wand from this weird magic shop, I decided to see if magic exists."

"Oh well can I have a try?" asked Mrs. Frek.

"Sure, I doubt it would work though."

"Lumos," she said.  Suddenly, light, like a flashlight's light came out of the tip of the wand.

"How'd you do that mom?"

"I wrote the book, son," said she.

"No way..." Jason looked down at the book and turned to the first page.  There it was, the picture of his mother and her name.  But something strange happened; his mother's picture was waving at him.  Shocked from the image, Jason dropped the book.

Mrs. Frek gave a light laugh and said, "Son, you and me and dad gotta have a talk this evening.  But just continue on with the book, we'll explain latter."

It turned out that Mr. Frek was a wizard and Mrs. Frek was a witch.  They both graduated from Hogwarts, a school for wizards and witches.  In order to keep Jason safe from this evil guy called Lord Voldemort, they decided to escape to the Muggle world, which was the non-magical world.  At first the two struggled to earn a living because wizard money is different than Muggle money.  The couple both found jobs and worked very hard to get to the top, of course they used magic to help a little.  When Jason was eleven, he was suppose to go to Hogwarts, but Mr. Frek thought that even though Voldemort had been gone for quite a long time, the Freks got used to the Muggle world.

The Frek's got a letter from Hogwarts when Jason was ten telling them that Jason was ready to go the wizarding school.  However, Mrs. Frek hid the letter, but she showed him the letter now.  Jason's parents told him that they decided to tell Jason was a wizard when he becomes interested in magic.

"The girl at the magic shop.. She said her name was Martha and that she goes to Hogwarts, but later corrects herself and told me that she went to my school.  It's scary, she told my fortune, and most of it came true!" exclaimed Jason. 

"Martha Worly? The daughter of Sam and Isabella Worly?" asked Mrs. Frek.

"I dunno."

Jason's parents then explained about Hogwarts the school, and the sport Quidditch (which was the wizarding world's most popular sport, it has seven players on each team riding on broom sticks). 

"So..." said Mr. Frek.

"So what?" asked Jason.

"So do you want to go to Hogwarts next year besides your regular school?"

"I don't know, it's allot to take in, I mean that I'm a wizard and all."

"Well tell us soon, because if you want to go, you have lots of catching up to do, your suppose to be a fifth year in September.  Don't worry though, I'll help you," said Mrs. Frek.

So. I'm a wizard, thought Jason...  He thought about how his classmates in school hated him.  Why don't I go, he thought, school here sucks anyway.

The next morning, Jason told his mom that he would be joining Hogwarts next year.  Immediately, Mrs. Frek took Jason next to the fireplace. 

"Why are we here?" asked Jason.

"We need to get some basic wizarding supplies at Diagon Alley, we'll be traveling by floo powder, just walk in the fire and yell 'Daigon Alley', and you'll be there.  Just watch out for the snot though, follow me."

"What?"

"Don't worry just follow me."

She took some powder from a pot on top of the fireplace and gave some to Jason.  She stepped into the fire and yelled "Diagon Alley"

Jason followed, stepping nervously into the fire.  The fire didn't burn... odd... he yelled "Diagon Alley!"

It was the coolest thing he had even been on, Jason thought.  The swirl of colors around him and the speed he was going was way cooler than any roller coaster he'd been on.

We he arrived; he seemed to be in a very odd town.  "Where are we mom?"

"We are in London, this is a wizard place, and regular Muggles can't see this place.," she explained. 

"We traveled that fast from America to LONDON??!??!" exclaimed Jason.

"Uhh. yes.. First of all, you need to get a new wand, and a pet owl.  We'll buy school supplies in August."

Mrs. Frek led Jason to a wand shop.  The storeowner, Mr. Ollivander smiled at Mrs. Frek and Jason.

"Amanda, long time no see...  you bring your son to Hogwarts. Finally huh?" 

"Yes, Mr. Ollivander, my son needs a wand."

The old man measured Jason, and handed him a few wands to try.  He told Jason to wave the wand a bit.  On the third wand, red sparks came flying out of the wand.

"That's the perfect wand for you, Jason." he said.

"How much is it?" asked Mrs. Frek.

"That would be seven galleons and six stickles please."

Jason's mother took out a seven gold pieces and six smaller pieces and handed it to Mr. Ollivander.

"Thank you sir," Mrs. Frek said.

"Yes, good luck Jason!"

Next, Mrs. Frek took Jason to register for Hogwarts, and then she went to the Ministry of Magic to explain that Jason needs to practice his magic for the summer.  Underage wizards are usually not allowed to perform magic in the summer, but Jason was a special case. 

Mrs. Frek took Jason back home using Floo powder; Jason's summer training of magic has begun.

Author's note:

Yes, I did write the poem in the beginning.  I'm trying to copy Rowling's plot style.  I'm trying my best, I hope you like it! The next chapter will be a bit weird, but I assure you, It WILL make sense in the future.