Summary: Follow Anna, Albus, Rose, and their friends as they try to make it through their first year. A dark object is being guarded/held at Hogwarts until it can be destroyed. While there, it causes havoc among the students unbeknownst to the staff. Curiosity and bravery get the better of them as they seek to figure out what is happening at Hogwarts. On their own, of course.

Hi there! So this is my very first fanfiction ever. I'm not new to writing, just haven't done fanfiction before. I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it! Don't be scared to give me your opinion! I'm trying to write it in the same, easy-going and simplistic writing style that J.K. Rowling uses.

Please read and review :)

Anna climbed into the back of the car and turned about to yell at her siblings. "Hurry up! I don't want to be late!"

Her older brothers helped Dad put the remaining luggage into the trunk of the car. It shouldn't have fit three large trunks and three animal cages, but the entire car was given an enchantment – one that Anna didn't even notice, it was so natural.

At another shout from Anna, the rest of her family piled into the car. From the outside it looked to only fit five, but the eight of them sat quite comfortably with her and her siblings all in the back seat.

Dad started the car and they were off – finally on their way to the train station where she would board the train to Hogwarts.

Halfway there, her little sister called out to Mum loudly, "When do I get my own pet?"

"When you're eleven. Now stop it, Lydia. We've already talked about this," Mum scolded.

"Are you excited?" one of her brothers asked Anna.

Before she could say anything to Sam, David interrupted, "Why should she be? She's going to be put in Slytherin. You know what that means, don't you? Mum and Dad will have to disown her and she'll go to live in a shack with all the other Dark Wizards and Witches."

"I will not be Slytherin!" she shouted angrily.

"How do you know? You don't, do you!" he retorted

"She'll know when they put the Sorting Hat on her head though," her little sister added.

"And then it'll yell SLYTHERIN," her oldest brother said, laughing at the indignant look on her face.

"Leave her alone, boys," Dad told them sternly.

After a few moments of silence, Anna asked her parents shyly, "I won't really be put in Slytherin though, will I?"

"Plenty of good Witches and Wizards are sorted into Slytherin, Anna. It's not just the Dark ones," her father told her.

"Don't let your brothers get to you," Mum said, ignoring her younger brother as he tried to get at his toy hippogriff that she'd taken away a moment ago.

Anna was still disheartened even after her parents efforts to comfort her. Not Slytherin, she promised herself.

She looked out the window, watching the other cars pass by and wondered at how they could stand such a boring lives. Unconsciously, she started singing to herself, "You and I will fly out of this town – here tonight, leave all solid ground."

"What was that?" Sam asked her.

"Hmm? Oh, I must've been singing to myself."

"Well, we're here."

"What!" she exclaimed, sitting bolt upright. Looking around, she saw they were finally at the station. Dad parked the car somewhat haphazardly and they all climbed out. Jacob and Dad brought carts out to them and they unloaded their school things. Sitting atop her trunk was a cage holding her new owl. Brynn was a grey sooty color, but Anna knew she wanted the owl when she saw it sitting there in the shop. She was so graceful and beautiful – the perfect sort of animal for Anna to keep.

Kings Crossing Station was just as she remembered it from the year before when they'd all come to see her older brothers off for school. They rolled up their trollies to the brick wall that would take them to the platform. Mum and Dad took Zeke and Lydia with them through the wall, followed closely by Sam and Jacob.

David smiled at Anna. "Ready?" he asked.

"Yes!" she exclaimed, running through the brick with her trolly.

Parents and students were crowded around Platform nine and three-quarters, all saying their goodbyes. Steam from the train floated lazily through the air around them.

David came up behind her and immediately left to go drop off his things. Anna followed after him hurriedly. They rejoined the rest of the family after leaving their school trunks. Dominique showed up then, running to embrace David as her parents stood there watching in amusement. Anna made a gagging face at them. Off in the distance she could see Dominique's older sister snogging some boy.

Bill Weasley waved at her father, at which they started up an animated conversation a little away from the rest of the family. Looking uncomfortable, Fleur Weasley turned to talk to her son, Louis. Anna hardly new the boy since he was a few years older than herself.

"There's so many people here," her mother commented to Angelina Weasley who had just walked over to join them. Anna's mum went to school with Angelina and had stayed friends with her ever since.

"I know. This is like the Muggle's baby-boom in the 70s, isn't it," Angelina replied. "We all were having kids after Voldemort died."

"So this is the fruits of it? I wonder how they'll fit them all in the train," Mum wondered aloud.

"I haven't the slightest idea. I'm more worried about how they'll fit them in the rooms."

Anna's mum shook her head. "Now that I think of it, Jacob's year was pretty large too. They think it was the biggest in Hogwarts history."

The two women kept talking, but Anna was tired of listening to their boring gossip. The train's whistle blew, ringing loud and clear through the din of voices. Just as it did, Penelope, Jacob's girlfriend, came over to them from out of the steam. She gave Anna's eldest brother a brief kiss before turning to wave off her little brother as he boarded the train.

"Come on then, don't want it to leave with you," Mr. Weasley shouted at Victoire who reluctantly unlatched herself from the boy she'd been locking lips with.

Anna anxiously boarded the steps of the train. This is it!

"Have a good year, Anna!" Penelope called out to her. "And don't let it worry you so much about which House you'll be in – whichever the Sorting Hat chooses, you'll be happy with it!"

She smiled and waved back to her brother's girlfriend. She liked Penelope a great deal more than Dominique. The train started up, whistling loudly, and Anna waved even more fiercely. Hands stuck out from every window of the train as all the students shouted farewells to their families.

Now that the train was going, she hurried inside to find a compartment. Her brothers had long been gone to find their friends. Anna had no friends her age, so she peeked into each compartment hoping for one to be empty. Of course, none of them were. She finally settled on one where a black haired boy sat with a bushy, red-headed girl, and another boy with dirty blonde hair.

"Hello," she said in nervous greeting. "Mind if I sit in here?"

"No, not at all," the girl told her with a shy smile.

"Thanks," Anna replied, taking a seat next to the red-head.

"Are you a first year, too?" the boy asked.

"Yeah," she replied, obviously more relaxed now that she'd found some of her new classmates.

"I'm Al," he said.

With a wave, the other boy introduced himself, "I'm Tinsley."

"And I'm Rose," the girl added, pulling her bushy hair back from her face to put in a ponytail.

"I'm Anna," she told them with a broad smile.

"Which House are you hoping to be in?" Al asked.

"Anything but Slytherin, really."

"My dad told me that Sorting Hat will take your choice into account, so if you really don't want to be in Slytherin it won't put you there."

"Really?" Anna and Rose said in unison.

Al laughed at them. "Yeah, really. He told me right before we boarded the train. Said it listened to him at least."

Their compartment door opened just then to emit the blonde head of a young boy. "Can I sit in here?" he asked shyly, pushing his glasses up.

"Sure," Anna told him.

"Sorry," he said apologizing, "all the other compartments are full up."

"You a first year too then?" Al asked him.

"Yeah. I don't know anyone here. I'm Sebastian, by the way, Sebastian Reid."

"I'm Anna Palmer," she said in introduction.

"I am Rose Weasley. Nice to meet you."

Smiling genuinely at Sebastian, the dirty-blonde boy said, "Tinsley Jones."

"Albus Potter."

Anna was just about to ask Rose how she was related to Dominique when Al introduced himself. Her mouth gaped open. "Al – Albus Potter? You're not. Surely you aren't related to Harry Potter?"

"Er, yeah. He's my dad," Al admitted.

"Blimey," she said in astonishment. "The Harry Potter! What's it like having him for a dad?"

"Probably the same as any other dad. Why?"

"What do you mean why? Has he told you any stories from his days at Hogwarts?"

"Not really, though he did mention this ridiculous teacher he had one year, a Professor Lockheart," Al told her, a small smile on his face.

"What's all this fuss about? Who's Harry Potter?" Sebastian asked in confusion.

"You don't know?" Anna asked, wondering how anyone could not know about The-Boy-Who-Lived-Twice.

"Er, no. Just learned I was a wizard a month ago, to be honest," he told them.

"Ah, Muggle-born," Rose said.

"Is that a bad thing?" the boy asked, his brow furrowed in worry.

"No, not at all. My mum's a Muggle-born and she's brilliant with magic," Rose said to comfort him.

"Oh, good," he said, relaxing. "So who's this Harry bloke?"

"My aunt told me a bit about him – she went to school with him. She said that him and his two friends, Hermoine Granger and Ronald Weasley fought off Lord Voldemort – the darkest of wizard to this day! Well, at least that's what it says on his Famous Wizards card," Anna told him excitedly. Rose blushed at the mention of Harry Potter's friends. "Rose, you must know Ronald Weasley."

"Erm, yeah I do. He's my dad – Hermoine's my mum," she said reluctantly.

"Bloody! You guys will be celebrities at school," Tinsley exclaimed.

Al grimaced. "I hope not."

Eager to change the subject, Sebastian took his wand out from his pocket. "Did you all get wands too?" he asked anxiously.

"Yeah," Anna said, stifling a giggle as she took out hers as well. Al and Rose pulled out their own not a moment later. Rose's wand had vines climbing up it whereas Sebastian's was more on the plain side with a few grooves worked into it here and there along the handle. A few grooves and a ball were carved at the end of Tinsley's wand and Al's curved in at the handle with a trumpet like end to it.

"They all look so different," Rose commented in wonder.

"You all get yours from Olivander's as well?" Al asked them.

"Yeah," they replied.

"She's a bit weird, isn't she?" Sebastian said, sending them into laughter.

The compartment door opened while they were still chuckling over their different stories of Mrs. Olivander. A shy girl with long dirty-blonde hair stepped in.

"Hello," Anna said warmly, giving the other girl a smile.

"The train is really packed," she said quietly. "Is it all right if I sit in here?"

"Of course, go ahead and sit down," Rose told her.

Just as they were about to introduce themselves, the door opened again to emit a boy with glasses, his brown hair covering up one of his eyes almost completely.

"Hope you guys don't care if I join you," he said as he sat down next to Sebastian and Al.

"It's fine," Al answered with a smile.

They introduced themselves then to the two newcomers, Al getting properly questioned by the boy with glasses.

"Oh, I forgot," the new comer said after a while. "I'm Kent Balfour, by the way."

The new girl played with her hair nervously. "I'm Emma Neighbors," she said in a small voice.

At that another boy, this one with straight black hair that ran to his shoulders, his bangs pinned back, walked into their compartment.

"Sorry, the rest of the train is just as full," the boy apologized as he squeezed next to Rose. He introduced himself as Lance Keller, and soon enough him and Sebastian got into a heated discussion about some riddle. Anna was completely lost as to what they were talking about, so she turned to the shy girl sitting next to her. Emma seemed like the type that would only talk after much poking and prodding. So Anna prodded.

"I like your hair. It's such a pretty color," Anna commented.

"Oh," Emma said with a blush, "thank you."

"Are you a first year, too?" she asked the quiet girl.

"Yeah," she murmured.

"Wicked, me too," Kent announced.

Immediately, they started going around and sharing what little they knew of Hogwarts. Most of them had older siblings to tell them what they hoped were lies about the school.

When the trolly came by, a few of them bought candies to share. They all laughed as the Muggle-born, Sebastian, had the luck to pick a compost flavored candy from Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans.

While eating their candies, another student popped in through the door of their compartment.

"Oi, mind if I stay in here?" he asked in a light Irish accent. "The ones I was sitting with before turned out to be real pricks."

"I guess so," Rose told him as he hurriedly stepped in, closing the door behind and shutting the curtain.

"Thanks. They'll probably be sorted into Slytherin, those skawly little gits," he told them. Anna noticed Kent's cheeks turn red at the comment.

"Your first year too then?" Sebastian asked hopefully.

"Yeah. Same as you lot then?"

They all nodded to him, Anna a little to emphatically.

"I'm Sebastian Reid, by the way," he said, holding out his hand to the newcomer.

"Right, I'm Perry Pucey," he replied, shaking the other boy's hand.

When Al introduced himself, Perry gaped just the same as Anna had. Rose's last name seemed to come as no surprise to him though.

Shaking hands with the new comer, Kent and Tinsley both introduced themselves while Emma greeted Perry in that same nervous voice she had introduced herself with earlier.

"And I'm Anna Palmer," she told him, reaching out a hand.

He kissed it lightly. "Pleasure."

Anna drew back her hand hastily, wiping it off on her dress to the sound of Perry's laughter. He sat down on the floor between Sebastian and Al, there wasn't any room left on the bench, and helped himself to a chocolate frog. When he opened it he let out a bark of laughter.

"Look here Potter, it's your da'" he said, holding out the card to Al. "Want it?"

"What would I do with it. I see his face often enough," he retorted, laughing.

A few moments later Sebastian exclaimed how Potter's picture wasn't there any more.

"Where'd he go?" he asked them.

"What'd you mean? Can't expect him to stay there all day now, can you?" Perry told him with a laugh.

"Don't Muggle pictures stay put?" Rose asked no one in particular. Catching the smirk on the boy's faces she turned on them, "Don't you be poking fun at him for it!"

As it grew darker and they drew nearer their destination, the nine of them changed into their school robes. Sebastian complained about wearing the hat, saying it made him feel queer. They ignored him though, figuring it to be a Muggle thing.

"We will be reaching Hogwarts in five minutes' time. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be taken to the school separately," a voice rang out overhead.

Anna peered longingly into the pitch-darkness outside the window, hoping to catch a glimpse of the castle. The Hogwarts Express came to a stop before she did though.

"Seems like we're here," Perry announced.

"C'mon let's go!" Sebastian shouted at them enthusiastically, hurrying out of their compartment. Anna quickly followed her new friends as they hopped off the train.

Outside on the platform students were walking through the steam off the express towards a path where several carriages sat. The five of them made to follow the other students when a loud voice boomed overhead.

"First year students to me!" the loud voice called over the din of lively chatter.

They followed the voice to a tall, broad man who still stood with hands cupped around his bearded mouth bellowing. The tops of their heads barely reached the man's waist.

"Is this all of you then?" he asked the gathering of students. "Seems a bit more than last year," he wondered aloud. "Right then. I'm Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts." After a long awkward pause, he continued, "Erm, please follow me then."

The large man led them down a path surrounded by darkness. Around one bend, the path opened up to a lake and they could see the castle sitting on a mountain on the other side, light shining through its windows. Several boats dotted the water in front of them.

"Four students to a boat, no more!" Hagrid called out to the students as they made their way to the boats.

Al, Rose, Anna, and Tinsley shared a boat, whereas Emma joined Kent, Sebastian, and Lance got in another together.

"It's all right," Perry told them when they realized he was the only one left out, "I'll just hop in another one."

Once all the students were in, Hagrid shouted, "FORWARD." All at once the boats lurched toward the opposite side of the lake, the dark stillness of the water giving Anna the chills.

"Keep your heads down," he told them just before the boats floated through a curtain of ivy into a dark tunnel, at the end of which was a sort of cobble-stoned dock. The students climbed out and the Keeper of Keys led them up a stairway worked into the rock that wound itself up to the castle. They quickly rejoined as they followed the other students, except for Sebastian and Lance, who seemed to be deeply involved in another long discussion.

How was it? Having fun yet? I hope so. By now you would have realized that this is all in the point of view of Anna (my niece who is the same age as Al, Rose, and Scorpius). You still Al and Rose a lot, since they're best friends with Anna. Everyone does a fanfiction in the point of view of the next generation/canon characters. Booooooring~ Here you get a unique look at them, because let's face it - I didn't create Albus or Rose, so how would I be able to write accurately in their point of view? Least, that's how I feel.

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