A/N: So, one of these will be used in a Harry Potter story I'm working on but I expanded on it. We have all seven years in bedtime story form, beginning with year 1.

Disclaimer: Harry Potter and company all belong to J.K. Rowling. If I owned them, this would get turned into a picture book!

Year 1

The Dashing Knight, the Beautiful Princess, and the Enchanted Gem

Once upon a time, there was an enchanted gem said to be able to do incredible things. It would grant you any wish. It was rumored that it could even make you immortal. This gem was stored deep underneath a castle with obstacles to keep trespassers out. It sat there for years upon years upon years until people forgot it was even there. Eventually a family moved into the castle, a large family of redheads. There were nine of them all together. A mother and a father, six older brothers and one sister, the youngest. They had many servants to help keep the castle in tip top shape for it was quite large, even with all of them helping. What they didn't know was that one of these servants was there to try and find the enchanted gem.

One day the family was visited by another family that they were friends with. This family, while not all related by blood, was nearly as large and just as loving. They had a mother and a father, two uncles, and a brother and sister. In the hustle and bustle created by the guests, the mean servant saw an opportunity to try and get the enchanted gem without being caught. He slipped away and it was only the four youngest children who realized he was missing. Together the four decided to go after him, for it seemed like a grand adventure. However, they didn't think to remember that the enchanted gem had many different kinds of barriers to guard it.

First they had to get past a three-headed dog guarding a trap door that led further below the castle. To do that the two beautiful princesses sang a song to put the dog to sleep while their brothers, the dashing knights, opened the trap door for them all to jump through.

Second, once through the trap door, they landed on a nasty plant called Devil's Snare meant to squeeze any intruders to death. The elder of the two princesses remembered from her studies that Devil's Snare hated sunlight and used her magic to fill the room with just that. The Devil's Snare screamed and cried and dropped all four children onto the floor below it.

Third, they arrived in a room filled with flying keys and a locked door that wouldn't open through any magical means. There was a line of brooms resting against a wall and so the children hopped onto them. However, the instant they kicked off the ground the keys began to attack! They swirled and looped and dived and made it quite difficult to locate the correct key. Finally the raven-haired knight spotted a rickety looking old key that had a bent wing. He tore after it and low and behold, it worked! The children tumbled through and slammed the door behind them.

Fourth, the room they rushed into smelled worse than the three-headed dog they had encountered before. They found a knocked out mountain troll propped up in the corner and so hurried past it, thankful at least that they didn't have to deal with it.

Fifth was a life-size chessboard. Now, the redheaded knight was a master chess player, despite his young age. He quickly took charge and directed their pieces into victory. Even then, though, he had to sacrifice the position he was playing so that his friend could win the game and continue onward. The three promised themselves that they'd be quick and hurry back to help their friend.

Sixth was a riddle with potions where one had to determine which ones were safe and allowed to you step through the black flames and which ones were poison and would kill you the instant you drank them. The bushy-haired princess was quite clever and so easily figured out the correct potions they needed to drink. However, only one person could go forward. Two would have to go back. In the end, it was decided that the raven-haired knight would keep going while the two princesses returned to help their fallen friend. They wished him luck and all three drank their assigned potion.

Finally the knight arrived in the last room to find the mean servant gazing at a mirror. Upon closer inspection, the mirror was a magical mirror meant to be the last safeguard. The mean servant, unable to defeat the enchantment placed on the mirror, forced the raven-haired knight to try. To his utter surprise, he saw himself putting the stone into his pocket and then suddenly, it was there! This enraged the servant as he had been trying for hours to get the stone himself. He attacked the knight but just then the families arrived, alerted by the other three returning and informing them of what was going on. Together they overpowered the servant and he was taken down and turned over to the Aurors. It was then decided that the gem would be destroyed, for it was far too powerful for anyone to guard.

The families enjoyed the rest of their time together and many more visits were had between them. The four children went on a multitude of adventures together and lived happily ever after.