( I WAS HAVING TROUBLE WRITING THIS STORY AS A FIRST PERSON STORY SO I AM GOING TO REWRITE THE WHOLE THING AND CONTINUE IT AS A 3RD PERSON. AND AT THE CURRENT MOMENT IM UNABLE TO ATTEND WORK FOR A FEW MONTHS I HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO WRITE (= AS A DISCLAIMER I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING YOU CAN RECOGNIZE, JK ROWLING DOES. THE ONLY THING I OWN SO FAR IS ANASTASIA HEXUM AND HER FAMILY)
"I want him alive! I want to kill him myself" a strange man commanded to what looked like hundreds. They all wore the same odd clothing, long black robes, but they weren't bath robes. In the distance there was a castle. It was beautiful like a fairy tale, but scary, with flames engulfing it and the was explosions happening. It looked like there was a war going on.Dreadful. What was going on? As this man continues with his orders his troops are rallying. They are getting exited. These don't look like ordinary soldiers. This man they are calling there lord stops. They pull out long sticks and go towards the castle.
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Annastasia woke up with a start in her bed wrapped around her lavender bed sheets. She has had the same dream ever since she turned 11 in June. Looking over to her clock she saw that it was 8:22. At least she got to sleep in a bit this time. Throwing on some clothes she heads down stairs.
" Mooooommmmm Im awake!" she yells down the hall. Her mother hates when Anastasia sleep in. She calls it a waste of a day. She is up at 6 am.
" Hello sweet how did you sleep?" Her mother ask kindly.
" Fine. I had some more of those funny dreams. This time it was almost scary." Annastsia replied remembering some of the others. They were kind. Some were funny. Some were just as dark and the last.
" I'm sorry dear but I'm glad at least you have proper clothes on. We have a guest in the living room for you."
"For me? Who is it?" Anastasia wondered as she followed her mother down the hall.
" Its a women from a very special school. She is here to talk to us about having you go there"
" I though I was supposed to start Esther this year…" Anastasia earlier in the summer had applied and been accepted into esther, the local private school that excelled in academics.
They walk into the living room and what she saw shocked her. The women sitting there has been in her dreams. She is wearing a emerald green robe and a tight bun. Anastasia recognized her immediately from her dreams. In those exact clothes. In this living that was just a dream. Those type of people are supposed to be just dreams. That's why there in her head and she's never seen them before. Her thoughts were swirling around and then she stopped and sat down on the couch.
" Hello i'm Annastaia Hexum"
" Hello Miss Hexum I am Professor Mcgonagall from Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry and I am here to tell you about our school. And how you are a witch" she says very calmly like this is an everyday occurrence. Anastasia's parents looked at her wondering if there little girl would believe this. It all made sense to them. Strange occurrences have been happening around her ever since she was a small child. She most likely doesn't remember when she was 3 and her mother came in to the kitchen and saw that all the dishware was suspended in mid air. Mrs. Hexum screamed and startled Annastasia and every piece of class fell downed shattered.
"I hate to be rude mam but I cant be a witch. I'm only 11 years old. Wouldn't I have known a long long time ago if I was one."
"No, most muggles go without knowing until they get there letter to Hogwarts."
She hands her an envelope that has were her room is.
She read it.
again.
and again
and again
She kept reading the words on the parchment, she knew she never applied,so how did she get in?
"I never Applied to Hogwarts" She asked.
"We have known since you were born you would be coming here. We keep track of muggle borns" she said looking Anastasia in the eyes. To the proffessor this was a conversation that was to be had at least 20 times a summer.
"Muggle borns?" Annastasia ask politely.
"Yes people like you who have been born into non magical families. or muggles we call them." She explains. there were others like her. That would mean her parents didn't have magical abilities.
" Mam I've seen you before. In dreams. I thought you were fake. You turned into a cat" she asked slowly, she didn't want to enter a new world and be known as a freak.
" Is that so? Well I can turn into a cat as I am an animagus but the fact you knew this is very peculiar. How long have you had visions like this?" She inquired looking at Anastasia like she was studying a very odd piece of art.
" Since i turned 11 and there not visions just dreams." So she thought. She only had them at night. only when her eyes were closed. But they were also the first dreams she ever remembered.
"And these dreams...have they ever come true before? " She ask now staring intensely at the young girl in from of her. 11 years old, no magical background, no magical ancestor, yet, she has visions.
"No, normally I just see people. Things. Last night I saw a castle burning down." Annasasia giving any information the professor needs to explain this thing going on with her.
"A castle?" She the older witch's eyes turned to saucers and her eyebrows rose in surprise, like her own house was on fire.
"Yes mam"
" Mr. and Mrs. Hexum I believe Annastasia is what we call an Seer. A person who is able to have visions of the future. When you get to Hogwarts I want you to talk to professor Dumbledore he is the headmaster of our school and he will be able to decide further that I will. Until then you have your letter you have your book list and as remember, if asked your going to attend Linwood Academy, a prestigious boarding school up north. so I will you on September first…also, Miss Hexum, Please write down any and all of these..dreams. " And with that she was gone. With a pop she was gone. None of them could believe what they had just saw, felt like they were hallucinating.
" Anna you will be going to this school to learn how to control your powers. It's a boarding school. It's only a few days till September so we should gather your school things. Does it say how on the letter?" her mother ask as calmly as she could.
" I...er...duunnoo...let me see." she reads over the letter as see where to go.
" It says I need to get my things from Diagon Alley. But it doesn't say how to get there just to go to a tavern..."
" We will go then in a hour. Go eat breakfast."her mother says coming to term with her daughter was a witch. she would have been attending boarding school. in scottland! Anastasia went to ate and then grabbed her sweater.
The hexum family got into the car and headed for London. On her letter it stated she needed to go to a inn called the Leaky Cauldron and speak to a man named tom.
"mom" Annastasia looked at her,nervous to go to diagon alley.
"yes dear"
"are you sure about this?"
"sure about what?"
"that i am a wizard"
"of course sweety. odd things have always happend around you. its the only thing that makes sense." she said with a smile. she's always has that smile. you know the one a mom gives when she knows your doing the right thing. Her mother would give that smile and make the whole world better.
when they arrived at the leaking cauldron it looked ran down. the area of london was more questionable. there was a women in a raggedy dress like in the ones she's saw in the dream. as they walked in there was people dressed more as in the same manner as the proffessor.
"Are you tom" her father asked the bar keep.
"yes and you must be in your first year at hogwarts" he said while cleaning a cup
" yes sir'
"through the back miss"
the small family walked into the back and tom pulled out a long stick. he tapped the bricks and the most amazing happend. the wall started to move and a alley full of stores and the windows of all the shops was just magic. there was potions and books and brooms! witches really ride brooms!there was even an icream shop.
they went and exchanged muggle money in the giant bank at the end of the street. A witch told them they had to after they tried to pay for icecream with pounds. as they walked into the bank little odd looking people came up to the hexums and asked if they were doing a money exchange. handing over the pounds the goblin like creature handed back coins and explained that it was the equivalent. leaving the bank they walked into a book store and picked out the books on the list. Anastasia added a few more books including Hogwarts: A History, to learn more about the world that she is into the Robe shop to get a uniform she found that all her new clothes would be skirts and long robes that she saw the girls wearing all down the her stationary was a adventure,as a muggle her and her family were used to pen and paper, but here they used a method that was long lost a century or two ago. quill and parchment. walking into the apothecary ( to make real potions!) she spots a women with a gaggle of children. Annastasia has always found big family fascinating as she was the only child her parents had at home. her older bother died when she was 2 and he was women is larger with red hair along with what seems to be her husband. with her is 7 red heads. 6 boys and a little girl..theres a set of looked to be the same age as Annastasia. as she thinks this they turn and look at her.
"look George we have some one watching us" one said
" Ahhh Fred fresh blood. alway good to include a good muggle" the other says
" are you a first yes?' The first one ask
' I am just starting yes.? Are you what is called a, first year?' Anastasia asked shyly it would be nice to meet some people before she went to boarding school.
' yes we are-'they said in unison
'I'm George' the first one who spoke said
' and I'm Fred' second on spoke.
She went and shook each of the boys hands like her father taught her, and the minute her hand touched the one called feeds hand, an electric spark ran through her body and made her jump a little. At that instant she saw thhem as adults getting married in a field, a crooked house in the background and redheads as far as the eye could back to reality she remembers the shock. knowing he must have felt it too he stepped back a little surprised and gave her a look. saying her departure she quickly ran out to her mother who was outside the store waiting for her to come out.
going into ollianders wand shop was an experience like no other. walking in he smiled at them and greeted them like he had been expecting there arrival for years.
"hello you must be here to buy your first wand. small thing aintcha so lets see" he said as he started riffling through the boxes and boxes of wands.
"try this one. 13 inches purple heart wood and thunderbird tail feather, have you shown any talent in transfiguration?" the old man asked.
" not that i know of but of course i haven't the slightest idea what transfigurwhatty is." she replied not sure what she was supposed to do with the stick placed into her hand.
" well try a wave"
she did as the man said and pointed the wand at a vase that read" point here" and gave a wave. the large pink roses shifted to a hot pink. her first act of magic as a known witch!
" that wand seems to fit you well." he said as her parents paid him and they left the shop. Anastasia was smiling the whole way home.
~September first~
""WAKE UP ANNASTASIA!" her mother screams from the hall. groggily wakeing up to see the alarm clock say 9:45..'I am going to be LATE!' she thinks as she runs out of her bed! the train to hogwarts leaves at 11 am sharp! rushing to the bathroom to fully pt herself together she thanked her lucky stars that she packed her truck the night before and didn't have to worry about that now.
"mornin mum" she says sliding into the kitchen to scarf down a quick meal before the train.
"good morning dear. hurry up or were going to be late. we have to go to kings cross to day and if we dont leave soon we will miss your train." her mother says to her.
rushing out the door and making it there with minutes to spare, she loads her trunk onto the train and they walk up to platform 9. then walk to platform 10. confused she checks her letter again. platform 9 and 3/4 is where she was supposed to be. she leans against the wall to think and gets a vision of her running into the wall right down the middle. her father looks at her with concern as she got a glassy look on her face.
"we need to run into the wall i think"
he looks at her like she mental.
"honey thats the looneyest thing I've ever heard."
"lets try it? please daddy i sound crazy but remember I'm magic!" she says exited to not only know how to get to the train but to have another vision to put into the book for professor dumbledore, and one during the day non the less! grabbing their hands she pulls them forward her father having a tight grip on her trolly looking to his wife to make sense of all this.
"mum open your eyes you've got to see this!" she said as she looked upon the giant red train with black letters saying'Hogwarts Express' on it. seeing other kids and there parents all have trollys and trunks and owls!"
"bye mum, daddy, ill see you at Christmas!" she gives them a hug and kiss and runs to get on the train and find an empty compartment. she only had two minutes before the train left the station. finding one she settles herself down and opens her charms book and starts reading. she wanted to get as much knowledge as she could muster. if she was muggle born then there must be wizard born right? she saw a bunch of families in the alley. so they would be ahead of her and she wasn't used to not being on top in all her classes. hearing a knock on the door, it slides open before she could respond and standing there was two boys. they looked familiar. Oh! the ones she met in the potions shop!
"looky here we met you at the potions shop didnt we?" one said to her
"yes i think but i dont remeber your names I'm sorry " she replies after he confirmed why they looked so familiar.
" well im george and this here is my twin brother fred. were the weasleys." george says proudly grabing his brother around the neck
" mind if we sit?" he ask
" no of course not."
on the way to hogwarts the weasey twins tell her so much about the wizarding world. how pictures move and owls are the post office. they tell her that hogwarts is a giant castle and that they come from a whole family of wizards! she was right! there are wizard borns!
"so every one in your whole famiy are wizards? are you called a wizard born? or maybe even a magic born?"asking with a inquisitive look on her face
" so yea everyone. all of our brothers. our sister. our folks and aunts and cousins. not a muggle in the bunch. though some are a bit cookey and what is a wizard born? were whats called pure bloods, though that doesn't really matter" fred says to me with out looking into her eyes.
just then three boys walk in all with red hair.
(FOR THE POURPOSE OF THIS STORY BILL IS IN HIS 7TH YEAR AT HOGWATS, CHARLIE IS IN HIS 5TH AND PERCY IS IN HIS 3RD. IN REALITY BILL HAS GRADUATED CHALIE IS A 6TH YEAR ND PERCY IS IN HIS 3RD YEAR.)(( so I'm going to post the new 3rd person versions while the old 1st person versons are up so y'all can see the diffrence. i think it makes a much better flow and has more detail. this is the unedited version and as soon as my lovely friend who edits most of my writings is available to edit and send this back to me ill repost the edited version.