This is a bit of a change for me, so be easy. Usually I write Hunger Games fan fiction, but I decided to mix it up a bit. This story follows main events from the books, but relationships and other things are different. New characters have been added to the story who will make different impacts on the story. Please keep an open mind while reading this story!
Book One
Chapter 1- Before Hogwarts
Haylee Bark
When I was little, I found a world beyond imagination. I always knew about witches and wizards. My mother and father, Gretta and Antonio, were very skilled in magic. They were friends with many magical people, including the Weasly's and the Diggory's. The world I stumbled on was with their children, Cedric, Fred and George. My brother, Kendall, a boy Cedric's age, and Fred and George's little brother, Ron, a year younger than me, would play with us as well.
We were flying on some brooms we had stolen from my father, an avid collector of all sorts of different brooms, and decided to play Qidditch. I was determined to be a Chaser. I knew I was little, but I was fast and I had a good arm. I could throw and catch anything I wanted. We split off into teams. Ron and I were the littlest, so we would never be on teams together because we were always the "worst" players. I didn't believe that one bit. Both of us were excellent at the game. Kendall and Cedric, being the oldest, biggest and strongest were always split up as well, Cedric joining my team and Kendall joining Ron's. Fred and George would be forced to split up because they were both equal at the game and would provide an equal number to the teams. Fred would play with Kendall and Ron and George would play with Cedric and myself.
The game was getting intense. Ron and I had been forced into the position of seeker (though I would always protest and beg to be chaser) and the snitch was in sight, right below me. I made a dive for it, trying to reach it before it was gone, but it moved at the last moment. I landed in a bunch of bushes. "Haylee!" I heard one of the boys yell, but I was mesmerized.
In the middle of the four bushes was a tunnel. That tunnel led to an underground cave. I was looking around inside of the cave when the boys found me. Kendall was the first to greet me, by scooping me up in his arms. "Bloody hell, Haylee! I thought you were dead."
I wrestle my eight year old body from his arms. "Well, it would take a lot more than me falling off a broom stick to die. You're stuck with me!" Cedric, Fred, George and Ron all watched anxiously. "I'm all right! I think you are all missing the big picture here, though. Look at this!"
Ron looked around at where we were. "This place is huge!" Before long we were building forts and magical kingdoms, fighting dragons (I never got to fight a dragon because I was the only girl and I had to be the Princess that was saved from the beast, though I always secretly enjoyed the part), being our own chocolate frog wizards and saving Hogwarts from evil wizards who threatened it. Kendall got to be the sorting hat that placed us into a different house each day. One day I was Slytherin, playing the evil, cunning witch, trying to defeat the good wizards from Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff and the next day I was the Hufflepuff, trying to defeat Vladimir the Bad (the evil name Fred always insisted we call him by). At night we would all climb out of our fort and head back home, all getting into our pajamas and falling asleep in soft comforters and warm bedsheets. Once in a blue moon though we all sneaked out and camped out inside our cave, making a big pallet on the floor and falling asleep next to one another. I, still being the only girl, was forced to sleep in the middle in case an evil wizard found our fortress and tried to kill us all, I would at least be protected. Ron slept on my left, George and Fred slept on my right and Kendall and Cedric slept on the outside of Ron. No evil wizards ever attacked us.
That fall, though, our band of merry thieves (the game for the week based off the muggle story, Robin Hood that Cedric had managed to find somewhere) diminished by two. Kendall and Cedric had to go to Hogwarts, but we made them take us to Diagon Alley with them. Fred, George and Ron weren't allowed to come, seeing as no new from their family was going to Hogwarts and Percy was already mortified that Kendall's family was taking me. It was like nothing we, Kendall Cedric and I, had ever seen. Kids on the street fluttered their new wands causing colorful sparks to be released from the ends. I remember going into Ollivander's with the boys, the moms going to buy their books, while the boys got their wands. Cedric tried out three wands before he found his: twelve and a fourth inches long made of ash wood and a unicorn hair. Kendall found his wand on the first try. His wand was made of Hazel, twelve and three fourths inches long and also made with a unicorn hair core. "What about you, young lady? Are you here to get a wand?"
I wanted to say yes. I wanted to go back home and play with a new wand, making bird houses and helping flowers grow, but I shook my head. "No sir. I'm not going to go to Hogwarts for another two years."
The man nodded. "Well, missy, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for a particularly nice wand for you. What's your name?" A smile lit up my face. Ollivander was going to look for a wand perfect for me before I was even old enough to get one.
"Haylee Bark, sir." My smile must have been contagious, because Ollivander's smile grew as well.
"Miss Bark, just you wait. You will have a perfect wand." I let out a small laugh and followed Cedric and Kendall out of the store.
We met up with our moms, holding the boys books in hand, but mom passed me a book as well. "I know it says it is a muggle fairytale book, but you have always loved stories like this. You've read 'Tales of Beadle the Bard' more times than I can count. I thought you would want a new story book."
"Wow! Thanks mom!" I gave her a huge hug.
Cedric and Kendall were laughing. "A wand and a new book? Your making out like a bandit, Haylee!" Kendall said, laughing.
Our moms looked at me filled with shock. "You got a wand?" Mrs. Diggory asked, shocked.
I shook my head. "No, I didn't get a wand. Mister Ollivander just promised to be on the lookout for the perfect wand for me." The moms looked relived.
We stopped for ice cream then the boys went to get their robes made. After that our moms took us to the pet store. "Boys, feel free to choose any animal you like."
Both of them rushed to the owls. They looked at several owls with much input from me ("Aww! He's cute!" "Oh, she's scary looking." "Oh, he pecked me!" "Look at this sweetie. She's adorable!") before settling on their two choices. Kendall chose the scary looking owl, saying she looked grand and majestic. She was an Eagle Owl and Kendall named her Dutchess because of it. Cedric took a much less threatening owl, a male spotted own he named Speck because of the spots he possessed. Mom wouldn't let me get an owl and told me I could get one in two years. I sighed and went to my book. The first story was about an Emperor who hadn't been wearing any clothes. It was very silly and I found myself laughing out loud to the stories. Cerdic made his way over to me, Speck landing on my shoulder. "What's so funny, Haylee?"
I point at my book. "Muggle stories are really funny!"
We went back home soon after and played on the lawn with Fred, George and Ron. We all threw treats in the air for Dutchess and Speck to catch and watched them play tricks. Eventually we stole my father's brooms and rode in the air with them. It was one of the best days I could ever remember. Sadly, the day ended and before we knew it, Kendall and Cedric were gone. In a way, they seemed so grown up. They no longer seemed like the kids who played games on the lawn with the rest of us, or played in our fortress. They were practically adults now, leaving the rest of us for some elite group it seemed we would never be a part of. My heart broke when Fred and George received their letters admitting them to Hogwarts the next year. It was just Ron and myself left and the youngest and the littlest were now the oldest kids holding up the fort while they were gone. It was another year before I got my letter.
Now I must confess something. I did not make up these new characters. I took an online quiz which told me about Haylee Bark and I was so interested in her and her life I could not help but make a story about her, but because of this, I can take no credit for the characters or who they end up with. The outline of the story is coming from that quiz but the detail are my own. I am going to change a few details from the quiz I don't like. Well, now that all that information is out of the way, please leave a review, add the story to your favorites or follow it. Please and thank you!
-Juliet