Authors Note: Here's my first ever Harry Potter fan fiction. I hope you like it, and please review.
The Heir Diaries.
Chapter One: I Forgot To Tell You.
The bright sun glared in through Iris' white window. Glittering dust specs were visible in the sunlight as Iris' eyes blinked open. Her fluffy white long-haired Chihuahua Minty jumped onto the bed, poking Iris with her wet nose as she stroked Minty behind the ear.
There was a knock on her door, and her mum walked in holding a box. Her mum Mena sat on the end of the bed as she looked at her fifteen year old daughter.
"Yes, mum?" Iris said softly.
Her mum looked up. She was slowly becoming scared. What has happened? She wondered what she had done this time.
"Sweetie, you know how you're, well, different?" Mena stuttered on the last word.
Iris' face expression went from scared to confused as she nodded. Her mother coughed awkwardly as she opened the box, handing Iris a letter with her name on it. She opened it and read it aloud to both herself and to her mother. Oh, and Minty, too.
Hogwarts School Of Witches and Wizardry
Headmistress: Minerva McGonagall.
Dear Miss Iris Romanovs,
We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins as soon as you are enrolled. We await your owl eagerly.
Yours sincerely,
Neville Longbottom,
Deputy Headmaster.
Uniform
Students will require:
Sets of plain work robes (black)
One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear
One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)
One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
Standard Book of Spells, Group 5, by Miranda Goshawk.
Other Equipment
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set brass scales
Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad.
Iris looked at the letter strangely. She then looked up at her mother. "When did I receive this letter?" she asked, looking back down at the letter and then back up at her mother.
Mena was looking at the floor. "You received one four years ago, but this one just came," she answered honestly.
Iris' eyes widened as she stared unbelievingly at her mother. Iris felt her cheeks flush a shade of red as she counted to ten in her head; she looked back at her mother.
"Why didn't you show me this before? And why are you showing it now?" she asked, her voice almost hitting the point of hysteria.
Mena looked at her daughter, taking in the young woman she had become; she had long red curly hair down past her waist, was at a medium height, was rather curvy and thin, and had cupid bow lips, with light blue eyes and long black eyelashes, and rather pale skin, unlike her mothers tanned skin. Mena smiled at her beautiful daughter as she sighed.
"I didn't want you too leave me. You're all I have left."
Iris' face softened, though she knew this was no the whole truth, and that her mother wasn't telling her something. Contrariwise, she stood up and went over to her mother, wrapping her arms around her neck and giving her a big hug. Minty, feeling abandoned, jumped onto Mena's lap, and Mena pulled the small dog into the hug. They all pulled away after a few minutes.
"I forgot about it after a while, but this new letter has made me think that I should let you go," Mena told her daughter quietly.
Iris' face lit up. "Really? Yes! I'm going to be a witch!" Iris screamed happily, as she picked up Minty and jumped around the room. Then suddenly she stopped as she looked at her dog. "They didn't say we were aloud dogs."
Minty's face dropped, but Mena edged in excitedly. "Don't worry they will make an exception."
Iris looked at the wall weirdly. Earlier that week her mum had taken her to a place called Diagon Alley. She had gotten a ten inch willow wand with a dragon heartstring core and all the other stuff on the letter, but now her mum was telling her to run into a wall at Kings Cross Station between the platforms nine and ten.
"Are you being serious?" Iris asked as Mena indicated for her to run.
Iris looked from her mother, to the wall, and then at Minty sitting on the top of the trolley, looking nervously at the wall. Giving in, Iris held her breath as she started running. She closed her eyes, waiting to feel the impact of crashing into the wall, but when she didn't feel anything, she opened her eyes to find herself looking at a red train. She grinned happily down at minty, who was panting from the excitement. She then felt the pocket of her jeans buzz, and she took out her mobile, then read the text she had just gotten.
From; Mum
To; Iris
Good luck, sweetie. Have fun at Hogwarts. See you when you come back for Christmas.
Iris smiled fondly as she slipped her phone back into her pocket.
After Iris got rid of her stuff and the trolley, she walked along the isle of the train with Minty in her arms, looking for a free compartment to sit in. When she found one that no one was sitting in, she walked in and sat down, placing Minty next to her. She opened her bag as she pulled her knees up to her chest. She took out a black notebook with a lock on it. She unlocked it with the key on her necklace as she took out her blue ink pen and started writing.
Dear Diary,
I cannot believe what has happened to me today. I have found out I am a witch. My powers are not abnormal anymore. My mum explained to me that I am still much more different with my other unique skills, such as; I can read minds, make people thinks things that aren't true, I can see things that are happening in the present, even when I'm not there, and I can shape shift into a wolf. I also have telekinesis. Hm, to be honest, I just thought I was a freak of nature really. But now I know different. My mum also said that there is a name for people like me. Apparently, I'm called a Watcher.
Iris stopped writing as she heard the door slide open. Three students entered. She quickly signed her name, then closed the diary and locked it, placing it back into her bag. She then looked up, and she saw two boys and a girl. They stood there staring at Iris, all three eyeing her curiously since she didn't look like a first year, and they also had never seen her around before.
One of them, a cute boy with black hair and hazel eyes, smiled innocently at Iris. "Can we sit here?" he asked sweetly.
Iris nodded, and then took in what the other two looked like. The girl had very frizzy brown hair, she was a medium build, and had coffee brown eyes. The other boy had red hair and looked rather lost, with his bright blue eyes. Iris thought that the boy with black hair was cuter than the boy with red hair.
The frizzy-haired girl sat next to me as the two boys sat opposite us. Minty jumped onto my lap, trying to keep out of the way of the three strangers.
The boy with black hair spoke again. "Are you new?" he asked, and Iris nodded. "Well, it's nice to meet you. I'm James Potter." He pointed at the boy with red hair. "He is George Weasley the Second."
He then pointed at the girl, who said; "Didn't you parents ever teach you that it's rude to point?" The girl then looked at Iris and smiled. "I'm Jane Granger."
The boy called George made a humph noise. "You're supposed to be Jane Weasley, but nooo; you wanted mum's maiden name."
Iris grinned at the group. "It's nice to meet you all. I am Iris Odessa Romanovs."
Just as she said this, the door slid open and a boy with platinum blond hair stood there, with two large boys standing behind him. "Well if it isn't Potter, Weasel, and Granger." His voice was very snooty, and he had air of authority about him. Just as he finished the sentence, his eyes drifted over to Iris. "Well, who do we have here?" he asked, smiling sweetly at her.
Iris rolled her eyes as Minty barked at the boy. The boy jumped back and demanded to know what the hell Minty was. Offended, Minty barked angrily as Iris glared at the boy.
"Minty is my dog; I thought you would already know that, being the same race and all," she yelled angrily at the boy.
Iris then saw Jane holding a book, so as the boy established what Iris had said, she used her telekinesis to make the book rise. Only Jane noticed because the others were staring at Iris. The book went just above the boys head, but he didn't notice anything, continuing to smirk arrogantly.
"Do you know who I am?" he demanded.
"Oh, great, another dude who doesn't know who the hell he is," Iris laughed. "But I do know this. First you were an idiot, but now you are an idiot with a headache."
The boy stared strangely at her. "I don't have a head—" He was suddenly cut off as Iris started using the book to bash him on the head.
He and his friends ran off as Iris gave Jane her book back, sliding the door closed with her mind, and stroking Minty. The boys sat there dumbstruck. Jane and Iris laughed at them. The train started moving and Iris started explaining what had just happened and what she was.
Before she knew it, she was at Hogwarts, beginning a new path in a life that was just about to become exciting.