A/N: This is my first (Harry Potter) fic.........I'm going to screw with facts, etc, so please excuse my artist's license and don't flame me for getting some things wrong. However, if you do have contructive criticism, I would love you for bestowing it upon my humble soul. ^_^
...Oh, and by the way, if you recognize some of the characters, it's because I role-play with Xue at Kasten.
Chapter One
She cupped her hands, letting the blossoms fall into them like pink snow. It felt a bit silly, but as Xun was inside the hotel room watching television, it seemed safe to do so without criticism. Xue appreciated the gentle softness of the cherry petals--their downy pinkness as comforting as a mother's touch--and the way they matched her chiffon dress perfectly.
Xun had told her not to wear a pink dress on a train ride--but what did he know? He was a Muggle, after all. Xue laughed at her new feeling of superiority, a complete novelty to her. Her brother was thirteen years older than she--24. For all her life he had been her best friend, but after all, a disciplinarian. Now was her "time to shine", her time to feel important and different. And if she wanted to wear a pink dress, than by Merlin, she was going to.
"Xue!" Xun's ruddy face appeared from behind the glass door of the hotel balcony. "Don't lean so far across the railing!" he scolded her, grabbing her hands protectively, the petals falling from them as he did so. "You don't want to fall and be squashed before you even get on the Frogwarts Express, do you?" Xue rolled her eyes, knowing his "mistake" was fully intentional, meant to make her laugh. "It's Hogwarts, Xun." she said anyway, smiling at his amiable expression.
"Speaking of which...are you fully packed? And have you fed that awful animal?" After stepping inside with her, he gestured toward a cage that was sitting on one of the beds. In it was a magnificent snowy owl named Linnaeus, quite zealously issuing loud, rapid "Wuh-wuh-wuh"s to anyone who happened to get within a few feet of him.
Xue looked at her brother, a calmly amused look on her face. "I let him go explore a while ago. I'm quite sure he ate something then."
Xun shuddered.
"I'm quite sure it was something nasty--didn't you say snowy owls eat mice, squirrels, and small birds?"
"Yes," Xue smiled at Linnaeus through the gilded bars of his cage. "And you've never eaten a cow?" Turning toward her suitcase, she gave it a pat as if to settle its contents. "What house do you think I'll be in, Xun?" She pondered, more to herself than to her brother. He gave her a reluctant glance.
"If I'm correct, Slytherin is the house for clever, ambitious children. Therefore I assume you'll be in that one."
"Yes, but Xun. I've heard--" she paused, not quite sure how to explain what reading "Hogwarts, a History" had done to her knowledge of Slytherin's reputation. "Never mind. Perhaps you're right."
To this day Xun and Xue had shared everything with each other. They were each other's confidantes, and niether had ever felt the need to hide something from the other. But now, Xue thought, now maybe it would be best to let him believe everything was fine and dandy at Hogwarts, and that there was no prejudice at all regarding Muggle-borns. She knew that if he did, he would never let her go.
*
More to come later, with Xue meeting the trio--and Draco (everybody gasps). Let me know if you think anything could be improved, and what you think should happen.
And...
REVIEW! PLEASE! *prostrates herself before the readers*
...Oh, and by the way, if you recognize some of the characters, it's because I role-play with Xue at Kasten.
Chapter One
She cupped her hands, letting the blossoms fall into them like pink snow. It felt a bit silly, but as Xun was inside the hotel room watching television, it seemed safe to do so without criticism. Xue appreciated the gentle softness of the cherry petals--their downy pinkness as comforting as a mother's touch--and the way they matched her chiffon dress perfectly.
Xun had told her not to wear a pink dress on a train ride--but what did he know? He was a Muggle, after all. Xue laughed at her new feeling of superiority, a complete novelty to her. Her brother was thirteen years older than she--24. For all her life he had been her best friend, but after all, a disciplinarian. Now was her "time to shine", her time to feel important and different. And if she wanted to wear a pink dress, than by Merlin, she was going to.
"Xue!" Xun's ruddy face appeared from behind the glass door of the hotel balcony. "Don't lean so far across the railing!" he scolded her, grabbing her hands protectively, the petals falling from them as he did so. "You don't want to fall and be squashed before you even get on the Frogwarts Express, do you?" Xue rolled her eyes, knowing his "mistake" was fully intentional, meant to make her laugh. "It's Hogwarts, Xun." she said anyway, smiling at his amiable expression.
"Speaking of which...are you fully packed? And have you fed that awful animal?" After stepping inside with her, he gestured toward a cage that was sitting on one of the beds. In it was a magnificent snowy owl named Linnaeus, quite zealously issuing loud, rapid "Wuh-wuh-wuh"s to anyone who happened to get within a few feet of him.
Xue looked at her brother, a calmly amused look on her face. "I let him go explore a while ago. I'm quite sure he ate something then."
Xun shuddered.
"I'm quite sure it was something nasty--didn't you say snowy owls eat mice, squirrels, and small birds?"
"Yes," Xue smiled at Linnaeus through the gilded bars of his cage. "And you've never eaten a cow?" Turning toward her suitcase, she gave it a pat as if to settle its contents. "What house do you think I'll be in, Xun?" She pondered, more to herself than to her brother. He gave her a reluctant glance.
"If I'm correct, Slytherin is the house for clever, ambitious children. Therefore I assume you'll be in that one."
"Yes, but Xun. I've heard--" she paused, not quite sure how to explain what reading "Hogwarts, a History" had done to her knowledge of Slytherin's reputation. "Never mind. Perhaps you're right."
To this day Xun and Xue had shared everything with each other. They were each other's confidantes, and niether had ever felt the need to hide something from the other. But now, Xue thought, now maybe it would be best to let him believe everything was fine and dandy at Hogwarts, and that there was no prejudice at all regarding Muggle-borns. She knew that if he did, he would never let her go.
*
More to come later, with Xue meeting the trio--and Draco (everybody gasps). Let me know if you think anything could be improved, and what you think should happen.
And...
REVIEW! PLEASE! *prostrates herself before the readers*
