George

The year 2062 it was George Potter's first year in the school of witchcraft and wizardry, George, being the great-grandson of the oh so famous Harry, had a tendency of becoming a nuisance to anyone available. George was the last boy to be born in the Potter family, his attitude came mostly from being bothered by this fact also, by the way, people would treat him as being a Potter child. As a little boy, he liked to play pranks on his relatives especially on his sister in law, who's two years older than him, mostly innocent and childish but as he grew the pranks began to bore him, the moment he received the letter from Hogwarts the entire family celebrated George felt resentful at first, seeing as Harry got most of his fame from the school, but soon he saw that as an opportunity for learning new tricks and meeting new people to pull those tricks on.

Never had someone see George as excited as he was when he got to the Hogwarts Express he couldn't wait until he was apart from his mothers so that he could elaborate his long plan of being Hogwarts big bother, with that kind of ambition it wasn't a big surprise that the only friend he ever had was the poltergeist, Peeves. Most of his time, when he wasn't attending classes, he would spend it with the ghost sneaking into places arranging traps and such. George's first year in Hogwarts was very well resumed by being called to the headmaster's office a lot and as the headmaster, Edward Lupin was very close to the boy's family the news about his little games spread very fast, as well as the news about Harriet, George's sister in law, bothering him about his family and calling him Potter Jr. Since he looked very much like his great-grandfather, which bothered George a lot.

All in all, George would have called that a successful year, except having to go to America to visit his father on Christmas, unfortunately to his parents he learned of the Weasley twins and their reputation and, of course, he wanted to follow their footsteps as being the best prankster, having his sister and her friends as the main target.

His second year was a little more exciting than the first, but we'll get to it later on, for now, let's focus on some other important characters such as Julia Willow, a Muggle just a year younger than George with a family history not as interesting as George's but interesting nevertheless.

Julia

Julia was an especial girl with an especial family, even though Julia hadn't seen her relatives very often, she would receive letters from them, which Julia thought to be weird since people haven't really used letters for quite some time now but she would still send letters back about what how she was and what she had done. Her parents would always say that their Julia was a special little girl, as most parents do, but with Julia was something else, she could make things move sometimes with not even touching them, she could understand animals and they could understand her as well.

The curious thing about Julia is that she was a witch, a Muggle-born witch but no one from the family had a clue about it since her parents aren't magical. Julia's father, Ronald and her mother Jane were both Squibs, having parents and siblings with magic and all they were expecting that Julia, who they were sure it would be born as a non magical child, hopefully showed signs of magic, by the time she was 5 they were pretty much sure that she would be one since her abilities appear to grow, with that in mind her grandfather, Ferguson Willow, decided to stay by her side teaching her what she had to know before joining the school, by the time Julia was eleven she was already expecting a letter from the school, that came, for Julia's surprise, delivered by an owl like it has been for ages.

Ferguson insisted on taking Julia to the Diagon Alley himself so that he would be able to accompany his granddaughter in such exciting journey he also had some friends he would like to introduce Julia.

As expected the Diagon Alley was nothing like anything Julia has ever seen, for starters it was hidden behind a brick wall and everything was so rustic nothing like the new modern London with machines passing through all the time. Being excited as they were it was no surprise that the first thing they wanted to buy was a brand new wand, made of Applewood 8" containing unicorn hair, poor little Julia almost had a heart attack when it started to shoot colourful flashes of light all over the room.

Throughout the whole Alley Ferguson would proudly show his granddaughter every store and everyone that worked in them, the last store they visited was Eeylops Owl Emporium where the owner was a good friend of Ferguson and where Julia would meet her first magical friend.

Margaret

In front of Potage's Cauldron Shop a very anxious girl, named Margaret Jones, was focused by her list of school supplies she was waiting for her mother who was distracted by a friend. Margaret was in a hurry to get her books she wanted to read them right away but her mother insisted in buying the heavier and bigger things first, the cauldron was the last of those items, as Margaret had been counting, all there was left was a wand, clothing and the books!

Finally at the bookstore Margaret took a deep breath, she loved the smell of books, and called for Marvin, her brother who started to work there not too long ago, he came soon enough bringing the books excited as she was Margaret forgot everything else she had yet to pick up and opened a book only to be stopped by her mother who was being called for there was an emergency at her store, Margaret's mother, Holly, was the owner of a joke shop at the Diagon Alley and made the big mistake of leaving it alone.

Having to shop on her own now Margaret felt lighter as she already got her books, soon after she got her wand, Dragon Heartstrings made of Cedarwood with 9", she had nothing else to do but to wait her mother finish the job. Taking her brother's advice to take a pet Margaret went to Eeylops Owl Emporium, as she entered the store she was slowly reminded that she was not very fond of any animal.

As Margaret stared at the owls she noticed one in particular who would stare at her back, a big Burrowing owl, not making any noise or moving at all the bird stared at Margaret constantly. The girl got so distracted with the owl that she didn't notice the girl next to it, red long hair, cat-like eyes (the left one blue the right one hazel) and a few freckles on the face, the girls got frightened by the sight of each other and shortly after laughed off the matter.

Cranky

"I'm sorry," said Margaret, smiling with relief "I was certain you were a cat"

"I can assure you I am not," said the girl laughing "my name is Julia, Julia Willow," she said offering her hand.

"I'm Margaret Jones," she said shaking the other's hand "I was very much distracted with this owl, it keeps staring at me."

"I think it likes you"

"Hum..." Margaret has had lots of moments when she had good enough experience to doubt that statement "How can you be sure?"

"Just ask it," said Julia, having no interactions with the magical world she couldn't know that only some witches and wizards had the ability to communicate with non-talking creatures.

Margaret stood there for a second, confused when she gasped "can you speak to it?"

Julia didn't know how to reply, Margaret had sounded more threatening than she intended, Julia's confusion made Margaret change her tone almost immediately.

"I didn't mean it like that" Margaret said it softly "I just, I have never met anyone who can"

"Really?" Julia then tried to remember her grandfather mentioning that at least once "I'm sorry I don't have much experience in magic or such"

"Oh, oh!" Margaret examined the girl up and down and looked in the eyes "Oh! You're a muggle! That would explain the clothes"

Julia was wearing a plain shirt and simple jeans which for her were just normal clothes although she wasn't too worried about the word Margaret called her.

"Wha- what's a muggle?" Julia asked hesitantly.

"Oh, no don't worry!" Margaret, with her quick wit, noticed the girl's tone "It's not a bad word, well it does depend on the point of view, but all in all it's just a word to all those who weren't born with magic or born from a magical family"

"Oh! All right then" Julia sighed with relief "So, are you taking the owl?"

"Oh, I-I don't know" Margaret took another look to the owl that was still staring at the girl "Are you sure it likes me?"

The owl made a subtle sound and went back to staring.

"Okay, I think I'll take it."

The girls headed to the front of the store where some argument could be heard, apparently, Jona Tully, the owner of the store didn't believe Ferguson Willow had a grandchild, he didn't even believe that he had a child.

"I am telling you!" they heard "She's right there at the back! She looks just like me! Look, look at her!" Ferguson points at the girls not really paying attention to whom he pointed at.

"That girl doesn't look nothing like you!" Jona exclaimed he was, of course, talking about the tall brunette with curly hair looking very much confused.

"Wha-? Are you insane?!" Ferguson said angry "I'm obviously talking about the other one!"

"I'm sorry" by that moment the owl was bickering Margaret's ear and jumping around on her head "I want to get this owl, now!"

Jona gave her an iron cage with a poor locket, Julia helped the new friend placing the owl in the cage safely, meanwhile the old friends continued their discussion about who was the granddaughter who didn't make much sense to Margaret since Jona have known her and her family for years, but she was too much preoccupied with the animal to say anything.

"Have you named it yet?" Julia asked trying to distract Margaret from both bickerings

"I don't know, I'm not even sure I am going to keep it yet." Margaret really didn't have a good relationship with animals.

At the end Margaret named the owl Cranky and Jona decided that both were Ferguson's granddaughters, the girls said goodbye and they went on their way. Margaret went to her mother's store where a mess of stinky bubbles everywhere meanwhile Julia and her grandfather went back home carrying funny looking things and smelly books and clothes.

Gerald

Getting to the Hogwarts Express was a big nuisance to Gerald, mostly because his mother and grandparents kept complaining the entire trip about how they had to travel all the way to England to get to the castle, but Gerald was also worried about becoming a student of the greatest school of witchcraft and wizardry in Great Britain. Every member of his family attended that school except for his grandparents, who attended Ilvermorny, but all of them without exception were great students, his brothers were always mentioned in great events, and his mother was said to be as brilliant as Hermione Granger by the headmaster himself. The thing is, Gerald was what people would call incredibly clumsy and very insecure and having a family with such high standards it was expected that he would feel a bit overwhelmed even his family being quite supportive.

In September 1st 2063, King's Cross was filled with people, Gerald couldn't really tell who was a muggle and who wasn't since he hasn't really interacted with none, as for the brick wall, well, Gerald has never actually passed through it he saw his brothers going through it and got terrified he had dreams about being crushed as tried to pass through it, of course, that didn't happen every member of his family got to pass even his little sister, Samantha.

The platform nine and three-quarters were also filled with people, now he was sure they were magical, he was still terrified though, the train was old fashioned and it would let smoke out remembering Gerald of a dragon which scared him when going up the train.

Most of the students were already on the train so most of the cabins were full, he had to walk for a very long time caring a big bag, for he didn't know where to put it until he could find an available cabin.

"Uhm... hello" Gerald knocked on the cabin's door where there was a tall boy, with black hair and blue eyes reading a comic book.

"Hello," said the boy not taking his eyes from the book "You can sit here if you want I'm all alone"

Gerald felt relieved as he wished to put the bag away, he sat across from the boy not really knowing what to do, he wasn't good with small talk, or talking in general, so he just sat there looking around and waiting for the train to move, the boy looked up from his comic book and saw Gerald staring at his feet.

"Are you alright?" he asked, Gerald wasn't moving or blinking.

"I'm alright I'm just not really good at talking" he was still staring at his feet.

"Oh," said the boy going back to his reading "me neither"

"Gerald Pittsmounth," he said standing his hand leaving the other boy confused "my name is-"

"Oh, alright," the boy said shaking Gerald's hand "I'm Luke Longbottom"

Both went back to what they were doing when the door opened and a small girl with red hair appeared.

Hogwarts Express

"Hello," she said, she was caring small cat "May I sit here?"

"Sure." the boys said in unison

"Thank you," she said sighting "I walked all over this cart twice and they're all full. I'm Alice Buttons, have you two seeing the castle yet?"

"No, not really," said Gerald not taking his eyes off his feet "have you?"

"Oh yes," she said, making the two boys look at her surprised, they have never even been inside the train much less seen the castle.

"How could you have seen it?" Luke asked still surprised

"Well, is not like I was inside or anything," Alice said feeling a bit overwhelmed about their surprise "I live in the village next to it, Hogsmead? my family has a shop there and occasionally I could see some towers"

"How is it like?" Gerald asked the only image of the castle he had was the description his brothers gave him

"Well, it's not really a big deal, it was just some towers"

"But they looked important and glorious?" Luke asked

"Oh yes," Alice said "it's definitely glorious"

At that moment the train let out a loud whistle announcing that they were on their way to the school, two girls passed by looking at cabins Alice watched them pass by the cabin and rushed to call them.

"Wait, come over here they are all full"

The girls were soon inside painting.

"Thank you!" said one girl "we arrived late and we went through all of these cabins, agh!"

"Well, thank you for calling us," said the other girl "I'm Julia this is Margaret"

"Oh yeah, we didn't even introduce each other properly," Luke said putting his book away "I'm Luke"

"I'm Gerald," he said still looking down

"I'm Alice" Alice was very entertained by Gerald's attention to his feet, he didn't look away from it since she got there.

"Are you alright?" Margaret asked Gerald who was right next to her

"Oh me!" Gerald said looking up for a bit but returning to his feet "Yes I'm just not really good talking to people"

"That makes two of us," said Margaret

The cabin went quiet and no one knew what to say for a really long time, then the food trolley appeared letting Julia curious.

Alice

Alice was excited about her first year in Hogwarts, she wouldn't stop talking about it tiring even her brother who was attending the school, she would create thousands of stories about how would her room be like, how the teachers would be, she even pictured how her trip to the castle would be like. Alice was always very whimsical and imaginative always talkative too, her grandparents always loved the way she would entertain them telling stories.

She would get excited about a lot of things but none came as near as when she was going to the Diagon Alley not just because of her supplies but because of her gift, her brother, Daniel, made her the promise, in secret, that he would buy her a pet of any kind before she went to Hogwarts, he was planning on taking her on a trip to London alone but the parents insisted on going with them ruining the secret gift.

Her family had opened a general supply store in Hogsmead around 2048, Alice's mother, Sarah was still pregnant with her brother everyone thought that the store would be in ruins since they opened in what appeared to be a haunted house but it turned out to be a big success.

In September 1st, 2063 she was finally ready to go, she had her supplies and her pretty cat, Taffy and couldn't wait to get inside the train, when she saw the castle however she had never imagined, she became completely speechless.

As she was sitting on the train when they were arriving Alice, who had been speaking during the whole trip, was now gaping with no other words to say except for "wow", the same thing in the boat trip to get to the castle that was the only that came out of her mouth of course she stopped when they got to the Great Hall to be designated into a house, Alice was so distracted with the castle that she wasn't able to hear Margaret's explanations to Julia, by the time she was done they were already calling out names of the first years to go sit under the hat.

The Sorting Hat

A very thin woman, the Deputy Headmistress as Margaret pointed out, started to call the first year students one by one in alphabetical order.

"Alice Buttons II" she called, Alice was nervous, paralyzed she didn't know what to do, she looked around to see if she could find her brother, he was sitting by the edge of Hufflepuff's table gesturing with his hands that she should walk to the hat, as she did she became more anxious and nervous all of those fantastic stories got lost in her head until the moment she heard the hat announce "Hufflepuff". Alice was relieved to know that she got into the house that every other member of her family was she rushed to the table where most everyone greeted her. She couldn't wait to see where her new friends would be.

"Margaret Carvalia Jones" the woman announced, Margaret walked confidently to the stool even though her head was a mess, she kept thinking about what could happen every member of her family was either Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, except for her grandfather who was from Slytherin, she looked at her siblings, her oldest brother Marvin was sitting with the rest of the Hufflepuff students while her sister Felicity was sitting with the Ravenclaw students, both were looking very anxiously at Margaret to see in which house she got sorted into. When the sorting hat announced "Slytherin" they sat down, Margaret was shocked she tried to find her siblings again but they've both sat down, she couldn't but think that she was disappointing them somehow, she joined the Slytherin table that greeted her happily.

"Lucas Neville Longbottom" she called, Luke went to the stool ignoring every weird look the students were giving him because of that name. Luke sat there patiently until the Hat announced "Ravenclaw" so he, again ignoring the looks, walked calmly to the house's table to be greeted.

Julia and Gerald were around the back of the line of students, there were just a few people in front of them now, Gerald was nervous while Julia wasn't which made Gerald more nervous, he tried to find his brother, Ewan on the Ravenclaw table but he couldn't, when it was finally Gerald's turn he just rushed to the stool and waited anxiously. The Hat announced Gryffindor and Gerald rushed to the table not noticing that the hat was still on his head.

Julia was one of the last students to be called, she wasn't as nervous as her friends were, maybe because she didn't really know what was going on, once she was called she went to the stool and waited for the Hat to put her in Ravenclaw then she went to the table and greeted everyone.

After the sorting ceremony, it was time for supper and it is not surprising to say that when the appeared on the table by magic Julia almost jumped, she had no idea of what to expect, everything up to that point had been an extraordinary surprise that she thought supper would be mundane. Julia was still very confused about the houses and how things were going to be but she was very much excited about the fact that was confusing.

Luke

Luke was very much lost himself he didn't know anyone and yet he was surrounded by people who wanted to talk to him, he was never good at making friends or talking to the friends he already has which wasn't much, he would prefer to stay quiet and read alone it was quite hard to do that now since it appears that everyone wanted to talk to him when he finally saw Julia on the table and by his memory, she was never bothering him to talk. He excused himself and sat next to Julia who was too distracted by the food to notice his presence.

Luke always wondered what it would be like inside the castle to see what his parents and grandparents saw and lived, but so far nothing seemed to impress him much besides the Great Hall ceiling where you could see the stars and the night sky, he was able to finish his reading by the time the headmaster announced the end of dinner and that the first year students should follow the Head Boys and Head Girls to their houses dormitories. Luke and Julia followed the Head Girl from Ravenclaw to one of the towers. The common room was round and big, with lots of blue and bronze shades by the dormitories door there was a big marble statue of, Luke assumed, it was Rowena Ravenclaw.

In the boys dormitories there were four beds covered in blue silk, Luke's things were already in the room and he didn't pay much attention to the others boys he was very tired all he wanted to do was go to sleep so he left the other boys to bond on the other side of the room while he got organized. The next day Luke found his new uniform waiting for him before breakfast, at the common room he found Julia waiting for him.