Disclaimer: I do not own any Harry Potter characters or ideas but I do own
Bethany, Ruby, Patrick, Arnold, and all of the characters you know that are
not in the books.
The Dark Shadow
Chapter 1: Home and Away
The bright violet rays of the sun were shinning through the blinds as Bethany lazily awoke in the morning glow. Once she was fully awake, she sat up in her bed and looked slowly around the pale blue room she was in. She saw her friend Ruby still sleeping in her double sized bed. Bethany had talked her parents into taking a last-weeks-of-summer vacation in France and they had unwillingly left her at her friend Ruby Chittock's house for the last 2 weeks of summer vacation. Bethany and her friend Ruby had a secret. They went to a school. But not just any school. It was a special school, called Hogwarts. It was for witches and wizards. They were both witches. Everyone in the school was learning magic and they couldn't tell any muggles, or 'non-magic folk' about it or the secret would spread like wildfire.
Just then her thoughts were interrupted when her little brother Caleb and Ruby's little brother Ben tiptoed into the room.
"Oh no!" Caleb whispered to Bethany. "We wanted to wake you!"
Bethany laughed because her brother always was playing pranks on people and telling jokes, but she loved him very much.
"I'm sure you did." She said quietly giving him a skeptical look and then smirking.
"Can we wake Ruby?!?" Caleb and Ben asked quickly.
Bethany thought about this. She knew that Ruby wouldn't be very happy with two little boys waking her, but she decided to let them anyways because it would soon be their first day of Hogwarts and she knew they were horribly nervous and she wanted to get their mind off it and let them have as much fun as the could before they were reminded of school again.
"I suppose so," she said slowly, "just as long as you don't tell her I let you." She added quickly.
They boys snuck over to Ruby's bedside and counted to three. Then they jumped into the air and onto Ruby's bed. They kept jumping up and down on the bed until Ruby was sitting strait up and yelling, "You little monsters! Get off! You ugly little gits! Why'd you go and wake me up like that!"
The boys were thoroughly ecstatic on the joke they had played on Ruby and they ran out of the room, not bothering to stifle their laughter.
Ruby gave Bethany an annoyed look and then got out of bed. She walked over to the door and shut up. It closed with a slam that Bethany knew Ruby had done on purpose. She began to get dressed and Bethany did the same. Today they were all going to Diagon Alley to buy their school supplies. The day after, was the first day of the new school year. This was Bethany, Ruby and most of her other friends 3rd years.
They went out of Ruby's room and jumped down the steps, 2 at a time.
"Morning, girls." Mr. Chattock, Ruby's father, said to them.
"Morning." The girls said together.
An owl flew in their window, and Bethany didn't seem to recognize it. She looked at Ruby and she seemed confused too. Then they realized, "Hogwarts." said Ruby and Bethany at the same time.
Caleb and Ben stormed down the stairs shouting and laughing.
"Now, now, boys. Settle down." Mr. Chattock said and smiled at them.
The owl dropped a letter on each of their plates and they all ripped them open gleefully.
"Mail!" shouted Caleb.
"Hogwarts letters." Bethany corrected him. Caleb's face turned a pale cream color, from the rosy pink it usually was. So did Ben's.
Mrs. Chattock came down the stairs smoothing out her dress and smiling. She winked at Bethany and smiled at the rest. Mrs. Chattock liked Bethany most above all the other of Ruby's friends. She seemed to want to be a second mother to her and was always treating her like one of her own children. Bethany didn't mind it because she always got extra sweet and gifts around Christmas and Easter which was more than Ruby's other friends got from her.
Caleb and Ben had started a food fight with their porridge and Bethany was just narrowly missed by a flying spoonful so Ruby said "Come on Bethany, lets go eat outside in the garden."
She picked up her plate and ruffled her brother's hair, again being narrowly missed by a flying spoonful of porridge and walked out the door after Ruby.
They went out and sat on Ruby's porch in the garden and watched as the little gnomes prowled the grounds and they laughed as the tripped over each other.
After they ate, they walked back inside the house and got everything ready to go to Diagon Alley. Once they were ready, they stood by the chimney, with floo powder in hand. Bethany had used this once before, last year when she went to Diagon Alley with the Chattock's.
She walked into the floo with her brother and they yelled "Diagon Alley." loudly. A rush of green smoke went up around them and they sat coughing and sprawled out on the ground outside of Madam Malkin's robes for all occasions.
Two minutes later, all the rest of the Chattock's had joined them outside the shop. They split up and agreed to meet back in 3 hours.
Ruby and Bethany first went to Quality Quidditch Supplies. Upon their arrival, they found Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas gawking at a brand new type of broom.
"Look at it! It's amazing! 'ow do they do it!" said Seamus Finnigan staring at the broom.
And they Bethany saw him. It was Harry Potter, who was also looking at the brooms. She ran over him and almost tripped over Dean on her way. Harry caught her and she brushed the hair out of her eyes. They both paused, and then started laughing. Ruby rolled her eyes and thought to herself, "God, here we go again!" She, and almost everyone knew, that Bethany and Harry fancied each other, yet neither of them ever asked the other out, or told them how they felt.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that." Bethany said to Harry laughing. "There must have been a snag in the rug or something." Dean gave her a nasty look and rubbed his leg where she had accidentally kicked him in the shin.
"Oh, no, don't worry about it. It's fine." He said and she realized he was still holding her up. She got up very quickly and was very embarrassed.
"Well, I have to, you know, go because I still have to get those books for school." She said and she waved goodbye while walking backwards. Dean had to move his foot again so that she didn't trip over it again on the way out.
"You and that Potter boy. I don't know what is wrong with the two of you." said Ruby once they had gotten out of the door. "Why don't you just ask him out or something and get it over with?" she asked exuberantly.
"Oh, no! I could never do that! I'd just feel awkward and I'd goof it all up!" she said blushing.
Ruby shook her head and they kept walking. Ruby decided to change the subject. She looked at her watch and said, "Hey, what do you say to some lunch?" It sounded good to both of the girls, so they went to the Leaky Caldron and bought lunch. Two of their other friends walked in right in the middle of their meal.
"Kiara! Patrick!" the girls shouted and their friends stopped talking and waved at them. Their friends Kiara Dearborn, a 3rd year in Ravenclaw, and Patrick Crane, another 3rd year in Hufflepuff, were good friends with you've Bethany and Ruby. They pulled two tables together so that they could all sit together.
"What do you think? Our 3rd year at Hogwarts!" shouted Patrick.
"I think that getting this far is exceptionally great!" said Kiara.
"I can't wait to play quidditch again!" said Bethany.
"Me neither!" said Patrick.
"And I can't wait to beat your team!" said Bethany and she laughed. Patrick looked smug.
They finished eating and went to buy their books. They got to the store and were getting their books when a familiar voice echoed in their ears.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Sipple, Crane, Chattock, and Dearborn." They all spun around to see their worst enemy and fellow 3rd year, Arnold Donovan. All of them stood a minute glaring at each other until Patrick said, "What do you want?"
"Me," he said, "nothing, but you, you probably want to get some decent robes this year." He said with a smirk.
Patrick stepped forward but Bethany and Ruby held him back. Donovan walked out of the store laughing.
"Why didn't you let me at him? I could have gotten him." said Patrick grimly.
They got their books and split up and each went back to meet their parents.
"See you all on the train tomorrow!" Bethany shouted to everyone.
Bethany and Ruth went back to the Chattock house, and they stayed up a long time talking about the summer, and their school before they finally went to bed.
Bethany closed her eyes and imagined seeing Harry again. They were riding their brooms in a quidditch game and Bethany was scoring lots of point for her team. Harry had spotted the snitch and was off! He chased after it and Malfoy who was the slytherin seeker, chased after it also. Harry butted Malfoy out of the way, and caught the snitch. Her team had won the quidditch cup. Bethany smiled at this happy thought, and with that, she drifted off into a pieceful sleep.
The Dark Shadow
Chapter 1: Home and Away
The bright violet rays of the sun were shinning through the blinds as Bethany lazily awoke in the morning glow. Once she was fully awake, she sat up in her bed and looked slowly around the pale blue room she was in. She saw her friend Ruby still sleeping in her double sized bed. Bethany had talked her parents into taking a last-weeks-of-summer vacation in France and they had unwillingly left her at her friend Ruby Chittock's house for the last 2 weeks of summer vacation. Bethany and her friend Ruby had a secret. They went to a school. But not just any school. It was a special school, called Hogwarts. It was for witches and wizards. They were both witches. Everyone in the school was learning magic and they couldn't tell any muggles, or 'non-magic folk' about it or the secret would spread like wildfire.
Just then her thoughts were interrupted when her little brother Caleb and Ruby's little brother Ben tiptoed into the room.
"Oh no!" Caleb whispered to Bethany. "We wanted to wake you!"
Bethany laughed because her brother always was playing pranks on people and telling jokes, but she loved him very much.
"I'm sure you did." She said quietly giving him a skeptical look and then smirking.
"Can we wake Ruby?!?" Caleb and Ben asked quickly.
Bethany thought about this. She knew that Ruby wouldn't be very happy with two little boys waking her, but she decided to let them anyways because it would soon be their first day of Hogwarts and she knew they were horribly nervous and she wanted to get their mind off it and let them have as much fun as the could before they were reminded of school again.
"I suppose so," she said slowly, "just as long as you don't tell her I let you." She added quickly.
They boys snuck over to Ruby's bedside and counted to three. Then they jumped into the air and onto Ruby's bed. They kept jumping up and down on the bed until Ruby was sitting strait up and yelling, "You little monsters! Get off! You ugly little gits! Why'd you go and wake me up like that!"
The boys were thoroughly ecstatic on the joke they had played on Ruby and they ran out of the room, not bothering to stifle their laughter.
Ruby gave Bethany an annoyed look and then got out of bed. She walked over to the door and shut up. It closed with a slam that Bethany knew Ruby had done on purpose. She began to get dressed and Bethany did the same. Today they were all going to Diagon Alley to buy their school supplies. The day after, was the first day of the new school year. This was Bethany, Ruby and most of her other friends 3rd years.
They went out of Ruby's room and jumped down the steps, 2 at a time.
"Morning, girls." Mr. Chattock, Ruby's father, said to them.
"Morning." The girls said together.
An owl flew in their window, and Bethany didn't seem to recognize it. She looked at Ruby and she seemed confused too. Then they realized, "Hogwarts." said Ruby and Bethany at the same time.
Caleb and Ben stormed down the stairs shouting and laughing.
"Now, now, boys. Settle down." Mr. Chattock said and smiled at them.
The owl dropped a letter on each of their plates and they all ripped them open gleefully.
"Mail!" shouted Caleb.
"Hogwarts letters." Bethany corrected him. Caleb's face turned a pale cream color, from the rosy pink it usually was. So did Ben's.
Mrs. Chattock came down the stairs smoothing out her dress and smiling. She winked at Bethany and smiled at the rest. Mrs. Chattock liked Bethany most above all the other of Ruby's friends. She seemed to want to be a second mother to her and was always treating her like one of her own children. Bethany didn't mind it because she always got extra sweet and gifts around Christmas and Easter which was more than Ruby's other friends got from her.
Caleb and Ben had started a food fight with their porridge and Bethany was just narrowly missed by a flying spoonful so Ruby said "Come on Bethany, lets go eat outside in the garden."
She picked up her plate and ruffled her brother's hair, again being narrowly missed by a flying spoonful of porridge and walked out the door after Ruby.
They went out and sat on Ruby's porch in the garden and watched as the little gnomes prowled the grounds and they laughed as the tripped over each other.
After they ate, they walked back inside the house and got everything ready to go to Diagon Alley. Once they were ready, they stood by the chimney, with floo powder in hand. Bethany had used this once before, last year when she went to Diagon Alley with the Chattock's.
She walked into the floo with her brother and they yelled "Diagon Alley." loudly. A rush of green smoke went up around them and they sat coughing and sprawled out on the ground outside of Madam Malkin's robes for all occasions.
Two minutes later, all the rest of the Chattock's had joined them outside the shop. They split up and agreed to meet back in 3 hours.
Ruby and Bethany first went to Quality Quidditch Supplies. Upon their arrival, they found Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas gawking at a brand new type of broom.
"Look at it! It's amazing! 'ow do they do it!" said Seamus Finnigan staring at the broom.
And they Bethany saw him. It was Harry Potter, who was also looking at the brooms. She ran over him and almost tripped over Dean on her way. Harry caught her and she brushed the hair out of her eyes. They both paused, and then started laughing. Ruby rolled her eyes and thought to herself, "God, here we go again!" She, and almost everyone knew, that Bethany and Harry fancied each other, yet neither of them ever asked the other out, or told them how they felt.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that." Bethany said to Harry laughing. "There must have been a snag in the rug or something." Dean gave her a nasty look and rubbed his leg where she had accidentally kicked him in the shin.
"Oh, no, don't worry about it. It's fine." He said and she realized he was still holding her up. She got up very quickly and was very embarrassed.
"Well, I have to, you know, go because I still have to get those books for school." She said and she waved goodbye while walking backwards. Dean had to move his foot again so that she didn't trip over it again on the way out.
"You and that Potter boy. I don't know what is wrong with the two of you." said Ruby once they had gotten out of the door. "Why don't you just ask him out or something and get it over with?" she asked exuberantly.
"Oh, no! I could never do that! I'd just feel awkward and I'd goof it all up!" she said blushing.
Ruby shook her head and they kept walking. Ruby decided to change the subject. She looked at her watch and said, "Hey, what do you say to some lunch?" It sounded good to both of the girls, so they went to the Leaky Caldron and bought lunch. Two of their other friends walked in right in the middle of their meal.
"Kiara! Patrick!" the girls shouted and their friends stopped talking and waved at them. Their friends Kiara Dearborn, a 3rd year in Ravenclaw, and Patrick Crane, another 3rd year in Hufflepuff, were good friends with you've Bethany and Ruby. They pulled two tables together so that they could all sit together.
"What do you think? Our 3rd year at Hogwarts!" shouted Patrick.
"I think that getting this far is exceptionally great!" said Kiara.
"I can't wait to play quidditch again!" said Bethany.
"Me neither!" said Patrick.
"And I can't wait to beat your team!" said Bethany and she laughed. Patrick looked smug.
They finished eating and went to buy their books. They got to the store and were getting their books when a familiar voice echoed in their ears.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't Sipple, Crane, Chattock, and Dearborn." They all spun around to see their worst enemy and fellow 3rd year, Arnold Donovan. All of them stood a minute glaring at each other until Patrick said, "What do you want?"
"Me," he said, "nothing, but you, you probably want to get some decent robes this year." He said with a smirk.
Patrick stepped forward but Bethany and Ruby held him back. Donovan walked out of the store laughing.
"Why didn't you let me at him? I could have gotten him." said Patrick grimly.
They got their books and split up and each went back to meet their parents.
"See you all on the train tomorrow!" Bethany shouted to everyone.
Bethany and Ruth went back to the Chattock house, and they stayed up a long time talking about the summer, and their school before they finally went to bed.
Bethany closed her eyes and imagined seeing Harry again. They were riding their brooms in a quidditch game and Bethany was scoring lots of point for her team. Harry had spotted the snitch and was off! He chased after it and Malfoy who was the slytherin seeker, chased after it also. Harry butted Malfoy out of the way, and caught the snitch. Her team had won the quidditch cup. Bethany smiled at this happy thought, and with that, she drifted off into a pieceful sleep.