Title: If Sirius Black had a daughter.
Chapter: 1 (The beginning)
Written on: 6th January 2002 (my b*day! yay!)
Disclaimers: J.K.Rowling owns half of it, if not all.
(A/N: this one's taken me months! I've written 55 A4 pages so far and i've only just started typing it up. I like this one so it'll probably end up being my main priority out of all my fan fiction. I've got quite a few on paper and i'll probably start typing them all up soon. Guess what! This one's gunna have longer chapters too! Yay!)
Tamzin woke up at six o'clock am as usual. Today it was her turn to cook breakfast with the help of her two best friends Nicole and Ellie. They had been best friends ever since Tamzin had come to Bridgend Town Youth Orphanage, BTYO for short. She was one year old when they took her in, her parents had died when their train de-railed and collided with another, both fuel tanks exploded so no-one could've survived, but she did and got a nice scar out of it too, right on her forehead. Tamzin grew up parentless in the dump of an excuse for an orphanage. She hated it there, the only thing keeping her there were Ellie and Nicole. They were the only thing in life that actually kept her alive, she wanted to give up a long time ago but Ellie and Nicole helped her through it.
Tamzin went down the hall to fetch the mail before she started breakfast. She went to take the letters to the governor but stopped in her tracks when she saw a big, thick letter addressed to her in emerald-green writing. Excited as she was, her hands shook as she tried to open it, but just as she pulled out the letter, Mrs Saundersby rounded the corner. 'WHAT IN BLAZES DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING OPENING MY LETTERS?' She shouted, a few heads popped from the side of doors all down the corridor.
'But Mrs Saundersby, it's addressed to me,' she answered quietly, Tamzin was always a shy and quiet girl.
'Rediculous! Who would ever want to write to a stupid little brat like you?' She asked, her voice dripping with laughter.
'Well I don't know, I was just going to find out.' Tamzin answered even quieter.
'How about I see then?' Mrs Saundersby asked with a malicious grin on her preternatural face, but it soon faded to a pale look of fear but that vanished just as quick as it has come, 'Just asking if you want a mortgage that's all.' The governor didn't even stick around to gloat, she just walked off still paled from whatever was in the letter. 'I've got to get that letter!' Tamzin thought.
'Late aint you?' Nicole asked with a mixed look of suspicion and worry on her lightly freakled face as Tamzin walked into the kitchen, ' you're never late! What you been doing?'
'Had to take the letters to Mrs Saunders.' She answered, hoping for no more questions.
'Since when did that take half an hour?' Ellie asked.
'Since I got accused of reading that old hag's letters, I swear she's got it in for me! I aint even done nothing wrong!' Tamzin burst out to her friend's suprise. 'There was one addressed to me and I was going to read it but before I even read a word that cow came & took it off me! But when she read it she looked real scared and tryed to cover it up by saying it was just a stupid mortgage letter!' By the time she had finished she was breathing heavily.
'Calm down already! We'll get the letter when we're cleaning Mrs Fishface's room after!' Nicole said brushing her hands through her hazel, curly hair. She was the brainy one and always had the good ideas.
That evening while cleaning Mrs Saundersby's room, the two girls looked everywhere for the letter but found no trace, until, that is, they found a pile of ashes on one of the tables. Embedded in ash was a tiny scrap of paper that said 'Miss Tamzin Black, we are happy to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts school of'. The rest of the paper was ashes. Nicole and Ellie looked at eachother as Ellie put the small bit of paper in her pocket. 'We so have to tell her!' They said simultaneously. They both finished their cleaning as quickly as they could manage and sprinted off to show their friend the small morsel of paper. Black and hazel hair flowing behind them like mid-air rivers. When they finally found her they burst into a fit of words which not even the most skilled person could understand.
'We was cleaning that dump,'
'For ages and it wern't there,'
'But there was these ashes,'
'Big pile!'
'Was massive!'
'Real big!'
'Like where she burns loads of stuff like this!'
'We found it,'
'Wern't much,'
'Here!' Nicole grabbed the scrap of paper from Ellie and thrust it in Tamzin's face.
Tamzin read it aloud. ''Miss Tamzin Black, we are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts school of.' Why does it have to end there? Where is this Hogwarts? What school is it? How the hell do I contact them? DAMM IT!'
'Calm down already! These people will probably get that you haven't got your letter and will write back, 'cause they already went to the trouble of finding out who and where you are. You're obviously very important to them!' Nicole tried to calm her down.
'But what if they give my place away? And why me? I aint important! I'm just stupid, shy, quiet, bumfluff Tamzin Black. All I got that's of any importance is you two and I don't want to lose you if I go to this other school!' She spilled out her top most feelings and worries. 'I lost my parents already, you're all I got and I don't really fancy being alone.'
Ellie and Nicole looked at eachother and immediately threw themselves at Tamzin and held her in a long group hug. She struggled to free herself but failed so she protested loudly instead. 'Gerroff! You're suffocating me! You know how I hate hugs! They're all girly girly pants! HELP! Damm it! Gerroff!' After about ten minutes of squirming she finally wriggled out of their grips. She ran down the corridor to safety, shouting behind her 'meet you in the hall dinner time!' Before Nicole or Ellie could even shout 'ok' she had gone.
At dinner time Nicole, Ellie and Tamzin sat in a tight huddle on Ellie's bed. 'We have to get that letter!' Tamzin whispered to the others, 'I just know there'll be another, so every morning i'll check the post and if you two can, keep an eye on Fishface and the letter graveyard.' She said enthusiasticly. The letter graveyard was what they decided to call the pile of letters on Mrs Saundersby's table.
'Sorted!' Ellie and Nicole shouted simultaneously. When Tamzin noticed this she burst out laughing. 'What?' They said at the same time again. Then they both said 'oh!' All three of them burst out laughing.
'How did you know I was going to say that?' Nicole asked suspiciously.
'Great minds think alike!' Ellie grinned.
When morning came, Tamzin sneaked to check the post. She was about to shout her praises as loud as possible but stopped herself just in time. There it was, laying under a genuine mortgage leaflet. She picked up the small pile of letters and tucked her letter insides her belt and covered it up with her t-shirt.. Then she took the other letters to Mrs Saundersby. 'I see you haven't opened anything this morning.' She said, holding up another letter. Tamzin held in her joy of getting away with it and said, as she had done since she could say the words, 'no, Mrs Saundersby. I'm very sorry for my bad behaviour yesterday, it won't happen again.'
'It better not do!' Mrs Saundersby rushed back into her room, obviously to burn more letters. Tamzin ran back to her room, it was the other three girls that shared their room that had to cook breakfast today.
'You'll never guess what I got!' She said, grinning to Ellie and Nicole as she rushed in.
'Another pet spider with twelve legs?' Nicole asked sarcastically.
'No duhhh! Then it wouldn't be a spider would it?' Tamzin laughed.
'Not what you tried to tell us.' Ellie muttered.
'I got the letter innit!' Tamzin exclaimed, grinning from ear to ear.
'Well?' Ellie asked impatiently.
'Well what?' Tamzin asked stupidly.
'Read it out innit!' Nicole said, practically dancing about.
'Ok ok! Chill!' Tamzin shouted opening the letter.
'Miss Tamzin Black,
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 equiptment.
Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall Deputy Headmistress.'
'Bloody nora!' Ellie shouted.
'Oiy! Keep off the English!' Tamzin said.
'I aint doing no french! What you want me to say? 'Oh dew dew'?' Ellie replied sarcastically.
'It's a start and atleast it's welsh. Try saying something that aint real english, like 'pants' or 'oh my skeptical delusional catastrophic kangaroo wearing pink fluffy dungarees'. I like that one.' Tamzin said laughing.
'Ha, ha, very funny.' Ellies sarcasm never seemed to want to stop.
'Well I thought so too.' Tamzin continued to laugh.
'Oh my skeptical delusional catastrophic kangaroo wearing pink fluffy dungarees!' Nicole suddenly came out with.
'Don't you start!' Ellie shouted.
'No! Here! Look!' Nicole said thrusting a second sheet from inside the envelope. She had pulled out a list of book titles and equiptment needed for a student starting Hogwarts.
'Well that just burst my bubble didn't it?' Tamzin said looking downcast. 'Hey! You know by here where it says 'any problems contact blah blah blah'? Well how do I do that? There aint no address or nothing.'
'Maybe they're psychic and contact you,' Nicole suggested.
' Hey, what's the date?' Tamzin asked.
'Oh my kangaroo thingy blah!' Ellie shouted.
'Atleast it's original!' Tamzin grinned.
'Argh! Tamzin! It's your birthday! It's the first of august!' Nicole shouted.
'HA! I've been eleven years old for like eight hours and I didn't even know it. Shows what this dump does to you dunnit.' Tamzin muttered. 'Ah well, i'll live. Your prezzie was the best!'
'What present?' They said in unison.
'This.' Tamzin held up the burnt scrap of the previous letter. 'Without this I never would've even bothered trying to get another letter. Plue you're both still my friends on my birthday aint you?' Ellie and Nicole immediately grabbed her into a big hug. 'Gerroff! NOW! I HATE HUGS! GERROFF ME!!!'
Just as they were all laughing and joking there was a huge BANG! at the door. Nobody moved an inch, not even Tamzin who was still being gripped in a group hug. BANG! There it was again. All three girls stared wide-eyed in the direction of the door. They saw Mrs Saundersby walk past their doorway. Curlers in her hair and baseball bat raised.
(A/N: This is where I ended the chapter on paper, but another will follow because i'm about to type it up. Enjoy :o) dont forget to review (please))
(A/N: this one's taken me months! I've written 55 A4 pages so far and i've only just started typing it up. I like this one so it'll probably end up being my main priority out of all my fan fiction. I've got quite a few on paper and i'll probably start typing them all up soon. Guess what! This one's gunna have longer chapters too! Yay!)
Tamzin woke up at six o'clock am as usual. Today it was her turn to cook breakfast with the help of her two best friends Nicole and Ellie. They had been best friends ever since Tamzin had come to Bridgend Town Youth Orphanage, BTYO for short. She was one year old when they took her in, her parents had died when their train de-railed and collided with another, both fuel tanks exploded so no-one could've survived, but she did and got a nice scar out of it too, right on her forehead. Tamzin grew up parentless in the dump of an excuse for an orphanage. She hated it there, the only thing keeping her there were Ellie and Nicole. They were the only thing in life that actually kept her alive, she wanted to give up a long time ago but Ellie and Nicole helped her through it.
Tamzin went down the hall to fetch the mail before she started breakfast. She went to take the letters to the governor but stopped in her tracks when she saw a big, thick letter addressed to her in emerald-green writing. Excited as she was, her hands shook as she tried to open it, but just as she pulled out the letter, Mrs Saundersby rounded the corner. 'WHAT IN BLAZES DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING OPENING MY LETTERS?' She shouted, a few heads popped from the side of doors all down the corridor.
'But Mrs Saundersby, it's addressed to me,' she answered quietly, Tamzin was always a shy and quiet girl.
'Rediculous! Who would ever want to write to a stupid little brat like you?' She asked, her voice dripping with laughter.
'Well I don't know, I was just going to find out.' Tamzin answered even quieter.
'How about I see then?' Mrs Saundersby asked with a malicious grin on her preternatural face, but it soon faded to a pale look of fear but that vanished just as quick as it has come, 'Just asking if you want a mortgage that's all.' The governor didn't even stick around to gloat, she just walked off still paled from whatever was in the letter. 'I've got to get that letter!' Tamzin thought.
'Late aint you?' Nicole asked with a mixed look of suspicion and worry on her lightly freakled face as Tamzin walked into the kitchen, ' you're never late! What you been doing?'
'Had to take the letters to Mrs Saunders.' She answered, hoping for no more questions.
'Since when did that take half an hour?' Ellie asked.
'Since I got accused of reading that old hag's letters, I swear she's got it in for me! I aint even done nothing wrong!' Tamzin burst out to her friend's suprise. 'There was one addressed to me and I was going to read it but before I even read a word that cow came & took it off me! But when she read it she looked real scared and tryed to cover it up by saying it was just a stupid mortgage letter!' By the time she had finished she was breathing heavily.
'Calm down already! We'll get the letter when we're cleaning Mrs Fishface's room after!' Nicole said brushing her hands through her hazel, curly hair. She was the brainy one and always had the good ideas.
That evening while cleaning Mrs Saundersby's room, the two girls looked everywhere for the letter but found no trace, until, that is, they found a pile of ashes on one of the tables. Embedded in ash was a tiny scrap of paper that said 'Miss Tamzin Black, we are happy to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts school of'. The rest of the paper was ashes. Nicole and Ellie looked at eachother as Ellie put the small bit of paper in her pocket. 'We so have to tell her!' They said simultaneously. They both finished their cleaning as quickly as they could manage and sprinted off to show their friend the small morsel of paper. Black and hazel hair flowing behind them like mid-air rivers. When they finally found her they burst into a fit of words which not even the most skilled person could understand.
'We was cleaning that dump,'
'For ages and it wern't there,'
'But there was these ashes,'
'Big pile!'
'Was massive!'
'Real big!'
'Like where she burns loads of stuff like this!'
'We found it,'
'Wern't much,'
'Here!' Nicole grabbed the scrap of paper from Ellie and thrust it in Tamzin's face.
Tamzin read it aloud. ''Miss Tamzin Black, we are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts school of.' Why does it have to end there? Where is this Hogwarts? What school is it? How the hell do I contact them? DAMM IT!'
'Calm down already! These people will probably get that you haven't got your letter and will write back, 'cause they already went to the trouble of finding out who and where you are. You're obviously very important to them!' Nicole tried to calm her down.
'But what if they give my place away? And why me? I aint important! I'm just stupid, shy, quiet, bumfluff Tamzin Black. All I got that's of any importance is you two and I don't want to lose you if I go to this other school!' She spilled out her top most feelings and worries. 'I lost my parents already, you're all I got and I don't really fancy being alone.'
Ellie and Nicole looked at eachother and immediately threw themselves at Tamzin and held her in a long group hug. She struggled to free herself but failed so she protested loudly instead. 'Gerroff! You're suffocating me! You know how I hate hugs! They're all girly girly pants! HELP! Damm it! Gerroff!' After about ten minutes of squirming she finally wriggled out of their grips. She ran down the corridor to safety, shouting behind her 'meet you in the hall dinner time!' Before Nicole or Ellie could even shout 'ok' she had gone.
At dinner time Nicole, Ellie and Tamzin sat in a tight huddle on Ellie's bed. 'We have to get that letter!' Tamzin whispered to the others, 'I just know there'll be another, so every morning i'll check the post and if you two can, keep an eye on Fishface and the letter graveyard.' She said enthusiasticly. The letter graveyard was what they decided to call the pile of letters on Mrs Saundersby's table.
'Sorted!' Ellie and Nicole shouted simultaneously. When Tamzin noticed this she burst out laughing. 'What?' They said at the same time again. Then they both said 'oh!' All three of them burst out laughing.
'How did you know I was going to say that?' Nicole asked suspiciously.
'Great minds think alike!' Ellie grinned.
When morning came, Tamzin sneaked to check the post. She was about to shout her praises as loud as possible but stopped herself just in time. There it was, laying under a genuine mortgage leaflet. She picked up the small pile of letters and tucked her letter insides her belt and covered it up with her t-shirt.. Then she took the other letters to Mrs Saundersby. 'I see you haven't opened anything this morning.' She said, holding up another letter. Tamzin held in her joy of getting away with it and said, as she had done since she could say the words, 'no, Mrs Saundersby. I'm very sorry for my bad behaviour yesterday, it won't happen again.'
'It better not do!' Mrs Saundersby rushed back into her room, obviously to burn more letters. Tamzin ran back to her room, it was the other three girls that shared their room that had to cook breakfast today.
'You'll never guess what I got!' She said, grinning to Ellie and Nicole as she rushed in.
'Another pet spider with twelve legs?' Nicole asked sarcastically.
'No duhhh! Then it wouldn't be a spider would it?' Tamzin laughed.
'Not what you tried to tell us.' Ellie muttered.
'I got the letter innit!' Tamzin exclaimed, grinning from ear to ear.
'Well?' Ellie asked impatiently.
'Well what?' Tamzin asked stupidly.
'Read it out innit!' Nicole said, practically dancing about.
'Ok ok! Chill!' Tamzin shouted opening the letter.
'Miss Tamzin Black,
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 equiptment.
Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.
Yours Sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall Deputy Headmistress.'
'Bloody nora!' Ellie shouted.
'Oiy! Keep off the English!' Tamzin said.
'I aint doing no french! What you want me to say? 'Oh dew dew'?' Ellie replied sarcastically.
'It's a start and atleast it's welsh. Try saying something that aint real english, like 'pants' or 'oh my skeptical delusional catastrophic kangaroo wearing pink fluffy dungarees'. I like that one.' Tamzin said laughing.
'Ha, ha, very funny.' Ellies sarcasm never seemed to want to stop.
'Well I thought so too.' Tamzin continued to laugh.
'Oh my skeptical delusional catastrophic kangaroo wearing pink fluffy dungarees!' Nicole suddenly came out with.
'Don't you start!' Ellie shouted.
'No! Here! Look!' Nicole said thrusting a second sheet from inside the envelope. She had pulled out a list of book titles and equiptment needed for a student starting Hogwarts.
'Well that just burst my bubble didn't it?' Tamzin said looking downcast. 'Hey! You know by here where it says 'any problems contact blah blah blah'? Well how do I do that? There aint no address or nothing.'
'Maybe they're psychic and contact you,' Nicole suggested.
' Hey, what's the date?' Tamzin asked.
'Oh my kangaroo thingy blah!' Ellie shouted.
'Atleast it's original!' Tamzin grinned.
'Argh! Tamzin! It's your birthday! It's the first of august!' Nicole shouted.
'HA! I've been eleven years old for like eight hours and I didn't even know it. Shows what this dump does to you dunnit.' Tamzin muttered. 'Ah well, i'll live. Your prezzie was the best!'
'What present?' They said in unison.
'This.' Tamzin held up the burnt scrap of the previous letter. 'Without this I never would've even bothered trying to get another letter. Plue you're both still my friends on my birthday aint you?' Ellie and Nicole immediately grabbed her into a big hug. 'Gerroff! NOW! I HATE HUGS! GERROFF ME!!!'
Just as they were all laughing and joking there was a huge BANG! at the door. Nobody moved an inch, not even Tamzin who was still being gripped in a group hug. BANG! There it was again. All three girls stared wide-eyed in the direction of the door. They saw Mrs Saundersby walk past their doorway. Curlers in her hair and baseball bat raised.
(A/N: This is where I ended the chapter on paper, but another will follow because i'm about to type it up. Enjoy :o) dont forget to review (please))
