Hey, this is the first chapter of Life of Orion, written by hey10224 and co-written by xking23. It's about Orion Potter, Harry and Ginny's fourth kid, and his life at Hogwarts.

I do not own the Harry Potter trademark, or anything therein, though some of the characters in this story are completely made-up by me, but have been influenced by elements from other works. JK Rowling owns the trademarks, and I do not wish to claim copywright or anything.

Also, I know that JK Rowling said nothing about a fourth Potter kid, but this is purely fictional, and we decided that it would be cool if he did. So no reviewing about that subject matter please. =)


Orion Harry Potter walked down the stairs that were in front of him in King's Cross, where he felt the lack of air conditioning very apparent. "When do we get to Platform 9 3/4, Dad?" Orion said, looking up at his towering father. His father was Harry Potter, who apparently was a very important person in history, according to his older siblings. He didn't believe it though, because his dad was so old, and old people are never important.

"Soon, Orion, we're almost at the barrier!" Harry said. Orion sighed. He hated walking blindly to places where he didn't know he was going to go. Orion looked down at the trains waiting in the station. He wasn't entirely sure what he was going to do when he got onto the Hogwarts Express because he didn't know anybody his age. All of his siblings were at least 10 years older than him. He was easily the youngest of his cousins, and the people that his mom and dad brought into the house were always really old with grown children. Orion was unique in his age group in his family. He was like in an entirely different generation. He didn't like being so young because he was often called the baby of the family. He wasn't a baby. He was 11 years old, and tall for his age for that matter.

"Look, I see Uncle Bill! He's with Louis. They're waiting for us!" Orion's mother Ginny said. Orion rolled his eyes. He really did not like Louis. For starters, Louis was six years older than him. Also, Louis was a bit of a goody-goody. Well, actually, he was a lot of a goody-goody. He was Head Boy, and he liked to call you on all of your faults. Like, if your shirt wasn't tucked into your pants, he'd tell you, and wouldn't stop staring at you until you tucked it in. Orion hated tucking his shirt into his pants, and it wasn't that big of a deal to him, or anyone else in the world besides Louis anyway.

"Hey! Orion! I see what you're doing! Tuck it in!" Louis yelled across the station. Orion groaned, embarrassed that Louis would do that across the entire population at the King's Cross. Orion looked up at his mother and said, "Please tell him to stop badgering me!" Ginny said, "Well, you better do it, Orry, or else Louis will do everything in his power to make you." Orion grunted, and tucked his shirt in, getting it fully in there just before meeting up with his uncle and his cousin.

"That's better. Now I know you'll be cool at this school!" Louis conversed, smiling at Orion. Shove it dumbass, Orion thought. However, he just looked at Louis and smiled back. Ginny looked at Louis and said, "Now, Louis, you know that Orion doesn't want to be ordered to do everything!" Thanks mom for telling that dimwit off, Orion thought, looking at his mom.

"So, are you excited?" Uncle Bill asked Orion, "Sometimes people think that Hogwarts will be scary. However, that's not the case. It's really fun, and I'm sure you of all people will make fast friends!" Orion liked Uncle Bill because he was the only guy in that family that had any sense at all. It helped that Louis was the only other guy in that family, though.

"I really am excited, thank you for asking!" Orion said, looking at the barrier in front of him. He knew that that was the way to get to Platform 9 3/4 because he had been in there with his siblings go in there many times. He looked up at Louis who took his trolley and said, "Out of the way, Pathfinder!" Orion grunted, and stomped out of the way. Louis always had terrible nicknames for everyone that made no sense. Louis thought he was cool because he was Head Boy. However, Lily, his older sister, told Orion that Louis had no friends at Hogwarts and that he was a loner, even if Louis said he was the coolest kid in the school. Orion believed his sister more than this dumb cousin of his.

Louis gripped his trolley very hard, and started to run at the barrier. He went through without a hitch. Then, after Louis disappeared, everyone started to stare at Orion, expecting him to go through next. Orion looked at the barrier and then looked at his parents. "So, you're going to come in with me right after I run through?" He asked, a bit anxious about what was going to happen in the next few minutes.

"Of course, buddy, do you think I'd want this to be our last time together until Christmas?" Harry said, smiling. Orion nervously smiled back at Harry, and then went up and got his trolley. There was not much on it because his parents decided that they wouldn't buy him an owl after they bought Lily an owl that eventually scratched her so hard that she was in St. Mungo's for her first week of school. Orion gulped, looking at his parents and Uncle Bill one last time before running through the barrier.

He looked in awe up at the magnificent Hogwarts Express, which was right in front of him. In moments, he would be on the train, and rolling away to Hogwarts. He was so excited, yet so scared at the exact same time. He walked over to the entrance into the train, and looked behind waiting for his family members. He saw his mom run up to him and hug him. She said, "Ok, it's getting close to 11 o'clock and we don't want you to be late!" She kissed him on the forehead, and said, "I know you'll do wonders at Hogwarts. Have fun and remember, these will be the best years of your life!"

Orion smiled at his mother, then turned around and immediately hugged his father and he said. "I'll miss you, bud!" Harry said, and he also kissed him on the forehead. Then Orion started to walk towards the train, his trolley being dragged along behind him.
As Orion entered the train and began to look for a compartment that he could sit at he was starting to get very afraid, there were so many older people around that seemed to ignore him, which was completely unlike the way he was normally treated by his siblings and cousins when they were at his house of vice versa. He saw one compartment that still had room, it had only one seat left, but that was better than cramming into any other compartment, plus these people all looked to be first years.

Orion opened the door of the compartment and asked the occupants, "Hey, uh, would you mind if I sit here?" as he squirmed his way into the compartment, he wouldn't sit until he was told it was okay though. "Sure, the more the merrier." answered on fairly chubby boy with a curly mop of black hair. "Ya, I can't see why not." answered the two other boys, both were very tall and had dark hair, they seemed like they grew up with each other, but it was more than obvious that they were not related. Orion took the fact that three out of the five people in there said it was okay was more than good enough for him to take a seat next to one of the girls.

"Hi, I'm Orion Potter." He told them, even though he was mainly directing his statement towards the girl he was beside. She seemed nice, but was obviously quiet, and only enjoyed talking to someone who seemed to be her sister on the other side of her. They were both cute, but both their mouths dropped when he said his name, and while looking around the compartment he noticed that everyone else did too, except for the big curly haired boy. "What?" he asked even though he already knew the answer, it was because he was a Potter, he was sure of it. None of his cousins had this problem, since the Weasley name wasn't nearly as embedded into the stories as Potter was. And with next summer being Harry's fiftieth birthday the entire wizarding world was getting ready to celebrate.

"As in Harry Potter, Potter?" said the girl that was beside him in amazement. Orion wondered if he should lie to them and try the No, it's a different Potter routine, but then thought that if he wanted friends he couldn't outright lie to them. "Ya, he's my dad!" Orion exclaimed, trying to sound surprised that random people knew who his father was, but it failed horribly. "Well don't rub it in our faces." whined one of the two friends, the one with the glasses and the icy blue eyes. The kid with the big bushy black hair looked confused, "Who's Harry Potter?" He asked as he pulled out his wand to fool around with it, so at the moment he jabbed it into his hair and fluffed up his pretend afro.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Chub, Chub, Chub, Chub, Chub!" said one of the two tall boys, the one without the glasses and the dark brown eyes. He looked at Orion and said, "I'm sorry, he's a Muggle born. Please give him a little credit that he doesn't know who your father is." Orion couldn't care less if people knew who his father was or not, he didn't think there was anything special about him. He was just 'Dad' and that was all.

"Excuse me, but why is your shirt tucked into your pants?" asked one of the two girls. They were both very similar, but not identical. He assumed they were twins. They were both dark-skinned and had beautiful long hair. Their eyes were really dark, and their smiles were both very sweet. Orion looked down at his pants, and said, "Oh, right. I'm sorry, my cousin told me to. He's the annoying Head Boy of the school you are going to meet." He sighed, taking his shirt out of his pants. He looked up and looked around at the group of people. They all seemed very nice, but he wasn't sure if he was going to become friends with them or not.

Then, Orion heard a whistle blow. That meant that it was time to go! He looked out the window, and tried to look for his parents and Uncle Bill. Unfortunately, the fat kid stood up and stuck his head out of the window, blocking any way of Orion being able to see them for one last time. The five of them sighed, and stared at the fat kid. The fat kid yelled, "Bye mommy! Thanks for packing my underwear for me or else I would have forgotten!" Then, the fat kid stuck his fatness out of the window and started blubbering like a baby.

"I-I don't want to leave her!" He said, bawling his eyes out. "I want, want to stay with her and daddy!" The boy with the glasses rolled his eyes. One of the twins said, "Do I have to comfort him, or will you, Xeno?" The brown-eyed boy groaned and said, "Fine! I'll do it." Then, he stood up and started patting the fat kid on the back. "There, there, it's ok, you'll be fine. Stop on the eating and you won't be made fun of!"

Orion was about to get up and leave the compartment, thinking these kids were too uncool for him when, all of a sudden, the train started to move. Orion jolted backwards, and then sat back upright when he regained his balance. He looked out the window and saw that all of the parents were leaving. He thought he saw his mother, with a handkerchief in her hand, looking somewhat disappointed. Then again, his mother wasn't the only redheaded woman there, so he wasn't too sure.

He sat and looked around the compartment one more time. The fat kid had stopped blubbering, and the one they called Xeno had sat back down. They were moving now. They were going to Hogwarts. Orion was so excited.

Orion looked at the one he perceived to be the most normal kid there, the one with the glasses, and he asked him, "So, what's your name?" The kid looked up and said, "Oh, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Justin Brent Jones. I am eleven years old, a pureblood, and a proud citizen of England!" Justin stuck out his chest a little, proud of his heritage, Orion guessed.

"I am Xeno King the twenty-third!" Xeno said, smiling. "I come from a long line of purebloods, but no one knows about my family because we have just recently in the last few decades emigrated from a far away island no one knows about." He stuck out his hand for Orion and said, "Nice to meet you, son of Harry."

Orion shook the offered hand. He knew that he was going to be looked at highly because he was Harry Potter's son, but he didn't know he would be treated like this. He didn't know he would be treated like he was a God. He felt so privileged to be part of the Potter family now.

"I'm Chub Chub Cantaloupe!" The weird fat kid said, "Apparently, I'm a Muggle-born, but I don't know what that is. I say weird things that people don't understand for the mere fun of it and I am also fat." Orion cocked his head and looked at Chub for a second. Who would name their kid Chub Chub? What, did he weigh thirty pounds at birth or something?

"We're the Mary twins!" said the two girls sitting across from him. He turned to face them and smiled at their pretty grins. "I'm Latanya!" said the prettier one on the left. "I'm Lafawnduh!" said the other one. "Nice to meet you two!" Orion said, laughing and sticking his hand out.

He looked out the window at the flat landscape that was before him and wondered if his mom had had her panic attacks yet. She always went a little panicky and berserk when her children left to Hogwarts because she was so worried something bad would happen to them like the things that happened during her childhood. He felt a little sorry for his parents for having going through so much throughout their lives. He didn't think that it was anything crazy that his mom did this after they left, and, in fact, thought it was quite normal behavior.

"So, what's up?" Orion said, trying to break some of the awkwardness that haunted the compartment. "Are you guys all excited to get to finally go to Hogwarts?"

"I'm more excited about meeting you, Orion Potter!" Xeno asked, obviously star struck, "Is it true that your dad killed an evil man named Voldemort who tried to take over the world?" Orion looked down, knowing this was bound to come up sooner or later. He really didn't like to think that his father had killed any man, even if he was a real bad egg. He just tried to think of his father as a normal person who led a normal life and had a normal job with a normal family. He never thought of his father as a hero or anything.

"Yeah, that's true!" Orion said, "Though I'm not entirely proud of it at all."

"Why not, Orion?" Xeno asked, "He saved all of our kind from a terrible fate that would have led to the downfall of wizardkind, or, even worse, mankind!" Orion rolled his eyeballs up into the sockets, trying to avoid the question. He didn't think killing any man was heroic. He thought that it was cowardly. Just let them die themselves, he thought.

Finally, Orion found the strength to answer the question. "I just don't think that the slaughter of another human being, let it be evil or not, is an acceptable thing to do under any circumstances at all. That's just my two cents, though." Orion sighed, hoping Xeno wouldn't hate him now that he said that.

Xeno let out an, "Oh." Then, he looked away and quietly asked, "So you're one of those save the whale vegetarian types, aren't you?" Orion felt sort of offended by that comment, and shot back saying, "No, I just believe that every man has a right to live."

Xeno was about to say something back to Orion when Justin said, "Look, guys, we barely know each other. How about we learn a bit more about ourselves? Who wants to start?" Orion sighed a sigh of relief, quite happy that Justin had gotten Xeno and him off the topic of his father. He was quite proud of his father, but he just didn't want people to bring up anything like Xeno had brought up. It sort of made him feel uncomfortable and sick.

After a few moments of silence, Justin snorted and said, "Fine, I'll start!" Then, he cleared his throat and said, "Hello, I'm Justin Brent Jones. You already know that, though, so what's the point of me telling you. My father is the famous Brent Jones-"

"WHAT?" Xeno asked, jumping up. "You're saying your father's famous when we have frickin' Orion Harry Potter in the room? Excuse me, but I'm going to have to finish your story." Xeno sat back down, and started to explain Justin's life story. "You see, Justin thinks his father is famous because he is Gwenog Jones's adopted son. Plus, he works at the Ministry as an assistant secretary in charge of the treasurer who helps the main treasurer to the Minister for Magic." Xeno let out a deep breath, and leaned back.

"Um… I'm sorry, but who's Gwenog Jones?" Latanya asked. "Was she a Quidditch player or something thirty years ago?" Lafawnduh asked, shrugging. Justin's ears perked up and he yelled out, "SEE! At least they know who my grandma is!" He looked at Xeno smugly. Xeno just groaned and said, "Lafawnduh didn't know that, she was just going out on a limb and guessing. She's not as famous as you think she is! She just played for the Holyhead Harpies! I mean, even Orion's mom did that!"

"Yeah, yeah she did!" Orion said, smiling. He thought it was kind of neat how Xeno seemed to know everything about him even though they had just met thirty minutes ago. He sort of was kind of starting to like the fact that he stayed in this compartment instead of moving and trying to find another one.

"Uh, excuse me guys, but the food trolley is here, and I need my food or else the hippo inside of me will die of herpes!" Chub said, standing up and jiggling over to go and buy some food. Orion immediately locked eyes with Justin, who shrugged and said, "I don't understand what he's saying either." Then, Xeno blurted out, "What's herpes?"

"Uh, Muggle disease from reproduction." Latanya answered as she walked over to the trolley to get some chocolate frogs. She and her sister had one of the biggest collections she has ever seen. She bought six frogs and tossed three to her sister and they started eating them. Chub went over and bought three cartoons of Bertie Bott's Every Flavoured Beans and half a dozen liquorice wands. Justin and Xeno looked at each other and shook their heads; they both bought a few pounds of candy from Diagon Alley when they went for their books. And Orion just went up and bought one chocolate frog, and a pack of Bertie's Beans, he really didn't need much since his Uncle Ron gave him more than enough candy for the entire year.

"Oh." Xeno shrugged as he, along with everyone else decided it was less time for talking and more time for eating, and for the twins shrieking as they both unwrapped their third and final chocolate frog, which just as a random coincidence was no one other than Harry James Potter. "Oh MY GOD!" They both shouted at the same time as they showed their card to Orion. "Look, it's your father, its Harry, we now have Harry!" They shrieked as Lafawnduh gave hers to Orion trying to extend a hand of friendship seeing how she had been oh so quiet. Orion read the card and saw in firm printing that his dad had indeed killed a man named Tom Riddle. Upon finally realizing that it must be true, he began to stare out the window.

"Well, uh in a lighter note, how's your hippo doing there Chub?" Justin asked trying once again to take the pressure off of Orion. Xeno was stuffing his face with some of the candy he bought, namely some cauldron cakes. "Uh, well he isn't dead yet, so I guess that's good." He chuckled as he stuffed a vomit-flavoured bean into his mouth, his eyes twisting in shock and his mouth almost doubling over at the taste. "EEEWWWWW!!!!" He yelled as he spat the fragments everywhere, and spraying almost all over the compartment. "GROSS!" shrieked the twins as they put up their hands in defense which did very little except make their hands very pukey.
"I think I'm gonna be sick." Chub moaned as he grabbed a handful of beans hoping to calm down, shoving four in his mouth his eyes screwed up again and his whole head turned lime green. Sadly he decided to eat a sardine, soap, grass and dirt bean. And this time he actually did vomit everywhere, or at least attempt to.

"Protego." Orion said as he raised his wand really quickly and blocked his newfound buddies from being spewed over. "GROSS!" The girls yelled again as he tried to cover their faces. After everyone noticed that they didn't get hit by the vomit, Justin joked, "Well it looks like the house elves will have to clean some spew here. But nice job there, otherwise we'd all look like a mess for the opening ceremony." Justin laughed, and the others all laughed except for Chub who was still way to busy trying to hold down anything that was left.

"That fat kid is really creepy and gross!" Lafawnduh said. She turned to face Orion and said, "Thanks for protecting me. These robes are new, and my ma would freak if I had ruined them first day!" Orion smiled, happy that he was being known as the savior. He looked down and saw his father waving right at him. He decided to read the card, and hope that Chub didn't vomit again.

Harry James Potter: Born July 31, 1980. Also known as "The Boy Who Lived." His parents, Lily and James Potter (both also collectible), were part of an elite force of people called the "Order of the Phoenix." When Potter was just one year of age, his parents were brutally murdered by the dark wizard, Voldemort (birth name Tom Riddle. Also collectible). Voldemort attempted to murder young Potter as well, but somehow, he survived the killing curse. In 1997, he again survived the killing curse, and ended up killing Riddle to save the wizarding world, which was under siege. Known to be the greatest living wizard, he currently resides in a small village outside of London with his wife, Ginevra Weasley (also collectible) and their four children.

He read the card over, and over, and over again. He just couldn't believe that not only his dad had a card, but his mom, grandmother and grandfather had cards as well. He had never collected the cards from Chocolate Frogs, and his parents always tossed them before he had the chance to look at them. Was it because of this? Was it because they wanted to shield their son from knowing about how famous he actually was. He wondered if Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione had cards as well.

"Ten minutes 'til Hogwarts!" Xeno said, to break the silence. Orion finally got out of his daze, and looked up. Chub was asleep against the window, and loudly snoring. Justin had earplugs in, presumably to try to fend off the annoying snores. The twins were playing a game of cards, and Xeno was doing nothing.

"You know, I know you think it's weird that I'm treating you like this, but wait until you get to Hogwarts. Most people don't even know Harry had a fourth kid, let alone one our age!" Xeno said, staring into Orion's eyes. "You'll be a king to them, and not the King like I will be to them. Like, you'll be looked at funny, and some people will hate you because they think your dad's a phony. But, I read about your father in a history book. And if those are wrong, what is right?"

Orion sighed, looking out the window. He could see a castle coming up along the horizon. He was starting to feel the anxiety and was a little scared of what people would think of him. He was very self-cautious, and now he was the son of the greatest living wizard. He had huge shoes to fill, and he hoped he could fit them. He wondered how Lily, Albus and James got through the mess of being the children of Harry Potter: The boy who lived.


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