A/N:
Okay, so this is my first fanfic. I've got about three chapters written but thought I'd post the first to see what you thought. It's about Roxanne and hopefully better than the summary.
Sorry for any spelling mistakes I've been over it so hopefully there aren't too many. If there are I apologise and probably don't deserve my English Lit and Lang GCSEs but oh well.. we all make mistakes right?
Anyway, enough of my babbling. Hope you like it and please, please, please review! I'm new to this and really want to know what you think.
Sorry if its a bit slow to start but it's the start, bear with me
Lots of Love,
Cookie :) x
*Memories and thoughts in either italic or bold*
Chapter 1- Going to Hogwarts
Molly Weasley had hosted her first 'going to Hogwarts' celebration the year Teddy Lupin, whom she viewed as her eldest grandchild, had left for Hogwarts. Since then, she had held a family meal for every grandchild, or group of grandchildren about to leave on the eve of September first. This year was no exception.
Looking around the table Roxanne smiled at the faces of her family. She could remember the meal the night before she had first left for Hogwarts.
"If you're not in Gryffindor we'll disown you, you know that?" Ronald Weasley said gesturing to his son and three of his nieces waving about a chicken drumstick across the air in front of them.
"Oh hush Ronald", Hermione cut in, " and for Merlin's sake don't do that with the food"
Ignoring his wife's nagging, Ron noticed, not for the first time, that he had put his foot in it with what he'd said. He had seen the young faces in front of him drop and rushed to redeem himself.
"It's okay guys, I was only joking. You know that "
Lily,Lucy and Hugo had laughed with him and continued to eat. Roxanne's silence however went unnoticed by the family.
Roxanne remembered being so upset by her Uncle Ron's so called joke that she'd spent half the night lying awake thinking she would actually lose her family if she wasn't a Gryffindor. Snapping out of her haze she noticed Lily's elbow digging into her ribs.
"C'mon Rox" Lily whispered. Watching her cousin excuse herself Roxanne waited ten minutes before clearing her plate and following her cousin.
Once Roxanne reached her bedroom she quickly pulled out her tracksuit bottoms and hoodie from her drawer, it would be cold outside after all. She then joined Lily on the windowsill of the room.
Whispering in unison the cousins counted to three and jumped. The room Roxy and Lily had been given was at the back of the house facing the garden. Before their first year they had blackmailed Teddy into permanently cushioning a part of the ground below their window, and as it was directly behind the shed, no one other than the girls and Teddy knew about it. Giggling as they landed the girls jumped up and raced off into the night.
They ran across the field and reached the edge of the Muggle village that The Burrow was near to. Sneaking through the streets, they came to their destination, hopped over the side wall and ran around to the back of the house's garden. They then found a small stone and threw it at the third window along on the middle floor.
~
Olivia Wood was cuddled up in bed when she heard the stone hit the glass of her window, as she woke up it took her a few seconds to place the noise and decipher what it meant but when she did, she jumped out of bed, grabbed her warmer clothes, her second broomstick, and like her best friends she jumped into the air outside her window.
Lily and Roxy watched as their best friend jumped on her broomstick and flew down to land gracefully in front of them, giggling the three girls then hugged and after stashing Olivia's broomstick in a bush by the house, they raced off once more. At the bottom of Olivia's garden the girls reached their final destination: their favourite place to be- Olivia's tree house.
The tree house looked like a simple muggle tree house from the outside but the inside had been enlarged and the floor was covered in cushions, blankets and duvets. Across one wall were shelves and shelves of muggle DVD's that the girls all loved and in the middle rested a 32" TV that they had saved for and bought secretly, this tree house was their sanctuary. Every August 31st, the girls would race over to meet Olivia and they would sit and talk into the hours of the morning. This was their freedom before the rush of September 1st and it always had been. It allowed them to talk away from families or school friends. Just the three of them.
The girls were woken by the alarm at five in the morning. They had fallen asleep huddled together and were once again grateful to their muggle alarm that acted as their fail-safe. Jumping from the tree house Olivia flew back into her room while Roxanne and Lily ran home.
After hearing the quiet click of the back door lock the girls turned to run up the stairs and make it to their room before someone was sent to wake them. Turning sharply Roxanne hit something solid and tall. Wincing as Lily ran into her she slowly looked up expecting a scolding.
Instead she found a smug-looking Fred grinning at them.
"Where've you two been?" he questioned, eyebrow raised.
"Please don't tell mum Fr-" Lily began.
"No wait Lil" Roxanne smiled sweetly at her brother. " Freddie won't do anything. Because even if he did he'd have to explain where he was. It looks like he's just come in through the back were wearing that yesterday and you never get up this early. Am I right big brother?"
"Ah, you got me there little sis, how bout we all just go up and pretend this never happened before we all get caught huh?"
"Sounds like a plan" Roxanne grinned at her older brother, linked arms with him and dragged him up the stairs after Lily.
~
"ROXANNE KATHERINE WEASLEY! WE ARE GOING TO BE LATE NOW GET YOUR BUTT DOWN HERE NOW"
Roxanne was woken up by the sound of her Aunt Ginny's voice. Cursing to herself quietly, she realised she must've fallen asleep when she and Lily had gotten back that morning. Looking at her clock she realised it was half 8 and that she'd missed breakfast. Cursing more loudly at the prospect of no food, she grumbled to herself wondering why Lily hadn't woken her. She quickly showered pulled on her muggle jeans, converses and a jumper. Rushing down the stairs she hugged her aunt before she could shout. This 'I'm guilty but you love me' hug as Roxanne liked to refer to it was something she had done since she was little and to Roxanne's glee, it still worked.
" I can't believe that still works on me, Rox" Ginny said shaking her head in mock disapproval.
"Love you Aunt Gin" Roxanne grinned as she blinked her eye lashes up at her with a childish sweetness in her voice.
"Hrmph, you're lucky you're so sweet Rox" Ginny mocked. "Want me to do your hair?"
"Do you even have to ask?"
Ginny performed a quick curling charm on Roxanne's hair, and although her hair was already curly, the charm turned Roxanne's morning frizz into neat ringlets that cascaded down her then shrunk Roxanne's cases and handed them to her.
"C'mon then sleepy head. Your mum had to take the training session this morning so I'm taking you instead. Fred, Lily, Albus and James are in the car. Your Grandpa insisted on driving you guys today. Everyone else is already at the station" Ginny said over her shoulder as she walked out of the Burrow towards the car.
Shoving her shrunken cases into her bag, Roxanne followed Ginny, and clambered into the magically enchanced back seat.
"I hate this" she managed to choke out before she felt the car lurch forward and into the air. ~
When they arrived at the station, Roxanne said goodbye to all the remaining Uncles and Aunts as well as to her might-as-well–be Uncle, Aunt and big sister, Oliver, Katie and Melanie Wood. Grabbing Olivia, she steered her from her family's clutches and towards the great Scarlett Engine that even now, still made her blink in wonder.
Finding the compartment with her cousins in wasn't exactly hard, she could hear their screams from down the carriage. Pushing open the door, Roxanne nudged past her brother and James as they wrestled and fell into the seat beside Lily.
"Looks like someone rushed out of bed this morning" Lily smirked at her.
Roxanne rolled her eyes, "Yeah well a certain someone couldn't even be bothered to wake me up, instead I was woken by your screaming mother"
A few of the cousins cringed, knowing Ginny's temper.
"How are you still standing? I'm seventeen and that woman would still kill me if I dared to be a minute late" James wondered aloud.
Roxanne gave her cousin a smug look, "C'mon Jamsie, you know me, I just used the ol' "I'm guilty but you love me" hug and she just laughed"
James shook his head in disbelief and went back to pinning Fred on the compartment floor.
"I know, I'm special." She shrugged as a few of her cousins rolled their eyes. "but that's beside the point." she turned back to Lily, "Why didn't you wake me?"
"I did!"
"You couldn't have!"
"Yes, Roxy I did." she said slowly, "I woke you and you said, and I quote ' Lilllllyyyyyy it's a Sunday, leave me alone' you then rolled over and went back to sleep" Lily laughed as the look on Roxy's face showed she remembered.
Roxy grumbled to herself and turned to Fred and James who were now pulling out their stolen stash of W.W.W stock. They grinned with triumph as they showed their cousins what they thought they had managed to steal. Roxanne couldn't help but tease him a little.
"Freddie, you're not as sneaky as you think, Dad knows you steal his stock but he just lets you because he likes that you take after him and he thinks its good publicity. You two are the best adverts he has."
Fred and James' smiles fell as they realised the truth behind her words and they looked slightly deflated. He shrugged it off, "Oh well, the fact is my dear little Roxy is that we have products and you, don't"
"Oh?" Roxy countered before pulling her backpack off her shoulder and shaking it for them to hear. Her own loot from the shop clinked against her shrunken cases.
"How did yo-"
"How cou-"
"Dear brother, Jamsie" she addressed them with a small smile, "You forget that although you're older, I am far better at theft and general prank planning." she could see them both about to cut in to protest her statement, she held an index up at them, "Yes I agree, you initiate far more pranks but, I, on the other hand never get caught. Now, if you want I could offer my products and planning services to you this year, but it will cost you"
Her cousins erupted in sniggers at the faces of the two Weasley boys as they realised they had been outsmarted by a fourteen year old.
~
Staring out of the window at the Scottish countryside, Roxanne finally let it sink in that she was going back to Hogwarts for her fourth year. She couldn't wait!
Jumping at the sound of the door opening, she watched as Olivia's older brother and Hogwart's new Head Boy stormed in.
"Stupid fucking Slytherin prefects, I swear I'll kill that bloody Quinn, urgh! She thinks she's so bloody amazing just because she's head girl, I swear to Merlin I should hex that little smirk right off her ugly face! Argh!"
No one bothered to correct Elliot on his anger or language, they knew better than to get in the way of him when he was on one of his rants. Instead they sat and watched as he let it all out. Rose sat beside Elliott and explained the story.
"Basically El was leading the prefect meeting, as he should, being head boy and all" Rose grinned, "So anyway Quinn walks in, late I might add, shushes him and tells him to sit. I had to hold him down because the supervising teacher was Professor De' Sanctis and you know how she can be. So basically Quinn decided she would try to lead the rest of our meeting, completely messed up, chatting a load of rubbish about our roles and then dismissed us all before El could even get back up to finish. Me and Al had to hold him back before he cursed her, scary really"
The compartment heard a few 'wow's and 'what an arse' but mostly remained silent until Fred and James piped up.
"Don't worry El-" Fred began
"We'll get her" James finished.
Roxanne shook her head, this is what her dad and his twin had apparently been like, and if there wasn't the obvious difference between skin colour and hair colour, Roxanne was sure they would pass for twins.
At that moment the compartment fell back into its easy chatter with Molly muttering something about being a responsible calm head boy, to which Elliott responded with his longest finger.
~
The rest of the journey seemed to pass by without much event, the Weasleys were visited by the Scamander twins whom only Roxanne and Olivia could apart, and Neville's daughter Alice Longbottom. Eventually though, they left as the train neared Hogsmead Station.
A/N:
So, what did you think?
Doesn't have to be long, just a quick few words on what you think please.
