AN: So hey guys, I started to write a juicy new story for you! Even though I am writing my Percy Jackson/Hunger Games crossover at the moment, I am willing to take the responsibility on writing two long stories at the same time.
This story has some meaning to me. You see when I joined Pottermore, I had effectively created a new character. My best friend (ProvidingTheAnswerToTheRiddl e) also created a character when she joined. Now, we have expanded these people into actual story characters. My friend not calls me Natty or Nats at school and the houses that we are in on Pottermore play a big part in our lives. So yeah, the characters that are OCs in this story mean a lot to me and so does the story lines and stuff.
I was planning to write ALL 7 YEARS and of course, because it is running alongside Harry's adventures, the storylines will be roughly the same. SO ENJOY!
The Wolf of Potter's Year
Chapter 1: Natalie
"Yes mum, I have everything" Natalie moaned exasperated as her mum stood with her on the platform of 9 ¾, fussing. Natalie was just about to start her first year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Her own mother used to go to Hogwarts, and was a Hufflepuff. Natalie was intrigued about Hogwarts and when she got the letter, she and her mum talked for ages about it.
The train whistle blew and Natalie's mum was still fussing about. "Mum! I'm going to miss the train!"
"Uh, yes, yes of course" her mum said huffily. Natalie kissed her mum goodbye, picked up her heavy suitcase with ease, and hopped onto the train. I have to look like I'm struggling a little bit with my stuff. I can't let anything show, she thought, putting down her stuff and leaning out of the window. She waved until she couldn't see her mum anymore as the train headed to Hogwarts.
So she pulled her head back in and picked up her trunk and owl cage with owl inside easily, but tried to show a little bit of struggle. She walked down the train to find an empty compartment. The emptiest one she could find held a girl who had long black hair that ran down to her hips. Her face was stuck in some sort of muggle story book, oblivious to the other first year entering the compartment and putting her stuff on the luggage shelves above the seats. Natalie put the cage on the seat with her owl, Shadow, in it, hooting softly.
Natalie watched the other girl warily, flicking her own hair, which was blonde and just above elbow length, round her neck to hide one of her worst scars. Once sat on a seat, she pulled out a very large piece of paper covered in drawings of the moon's phases during the year. She studied them closely, not realising that the other girl finally noticed her.
The other girl looked up and saw Natalie, and then she looked back down again at her book. Then she did a double take and looked back up at Natalie.
"Woah, where did you come from?" The girl asked, slightly bewildered.
"Um, I walked in, like everyone else would" Natalie replied, quickly folding the paper up and shoving it roughly in her pocket.
The other girl grinned, "If you say so, tiger." Natalie frowned slightly at the other girl calling her tiger. The girl then leaped up and jumped across the carriage, sitting cross-legged next to Natalie. "I'm Lily, by the way" the girl said, brightly.
"Ok, I'm Natalie" she replied, pulling her last chocolate frog out of her pocket and started to eat it slowly, nibbling the edge.
Lily suddenly rested her head on Natalie's shoulder and said, "It's a bit long, isn't it?" Natalie murmured something in response and she slowly tried to shuffle away from Lily. The girl had just met her and she was treating her as though she had known Natalie for years. Natalie also wanted to look at the large piece of paper again.
Lily shrugged, and jumped across the compartment again, putting her nose back into the muggle book. Natalie watched Lily carefully for a moment, and then she picked out the paper and unfolded it again, looking down to study it. They sat there for about ten minutes until Lily got bored. She looked around for something to do. Natalie didn't look up. Lily wondered what Natalie was looking at, so she hopped over and caught a glimpse of the drawings.
"Why do you have a large bit of paper with loads of drawings of the moon on it?" Lily asked, innocently. After that, Lily wished that she hadn't asked Natalie the question. Natalie's nostrils flared and her head snapped up to glare at Lily. Her eyes were so scary and menacing, that the look made Lily tremble slightly.
"It's none of your business!" Natalie snapped. Lily leapt back to the other side of the compartment as Natalie folded up the paper and shoved it into her pocket. Natalie then did something that surprised Lily. She slapped herself on the hand and muttered "Idiot! Why did you let yourself go like that?!"
"Sorry I shouted" Natalie said, now to Lily, hopefully looking kind, rather than angry. Lily just smiled and said brightly,
"That's okay, I shouldn't have looked." Lily then spontaneously started doing teddy bear rolls on the compartment seat, grinning like a maniac. Natalie looked up and laughed at Lily rolling around stupidly.
She thought back to what she saw on that paper. The full moon is a week after today. That could be a problem, Natalie thought, frowning in deep concern. Lily stopped in mid roll when she saw the frown on Natalie's face.
"What's up?" Lily asked, slightly worried.
"Nothing" Natalie said brightly, bringing herself back to the train compartment. Lily grinned.
"Okay tiger" she said, getting up from the seat and running her fingers through her, now very messy, hair.
"Why do you say that?" Natalie asked, puzzled. Lily smiled sadly.
"My best friend at primary school, Leo, well that is what I always used to call him. However he didn't want to be friends with me when, y'know, he found out." Lily shrugged. "It's a habit, I s'pose. What about you? I wanna know about your past" Lily said smiling brightly. However Natalie shot Lily one of those glares.
"I don't think you want to know" Natalie muttered, darkly. Lily shook slightly; those glares and dark looks were just too scary and were not very human. Almost animal like…
Natalie cheered up and quickly changed the subject. "What house do you want to be in?"
"H-house?" Lily stammered, frowning.
Natalie looked shocked. "Y'know the four houses? Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. I want to be in Ravenclaw or Gryffindor, they don't sound too bad but I really don't want to be in Slytherin. Apparently, that house turns out a lot of bad wizards" she said, shrugging.
Lily shrugged as well and said "I dunno tiger. Anything suits me." She grinned and started doing teddy bear rolls on the seats again.
Natalie laughed. "I think you could be a Hufflepuff, like my mum. You're so light hearted."
"I don't think so. Hufflepuff sounds like a breed of poodle and there is no way I'm going in some fluffy doggies house."
Natalie frowned slightly. "Hufflepuff isn't that bad."
To Natalie's surprise, Lily started to bound around the compartment, making barking noises and imitating a dog. Natalie laughed slightly but only to hide the fact that she had been offended. Dogs were related to wolves and therefore she treated them like her family. When Lily howled, Natalie froze on the seat, staring out of the window and not seeing anything with wide eyes. She was fighting to keep The Wolf at bay and not howl back; everyone knew that werewolves respond to the call of their own kind.
Lily looked over at Natalie and stared at her, frozen in shock. She then jumped back onto her seat, biting her lip and twiddling her thumbs. Lily then muttered, "I'm sorry."
Natalie jumped and felt a jolt of fear. "What are you saying sorry for?" She said nervously. Lily chuckled sadly.
"You're angry with me, I can tell." Natalie's nostrils flared slightly. She doesn't miss a trick does she? Natalie thought. However she just smiled a very fixed smile.
"Why do you say that?" Natalie asked. Lily sighed and looked at the floor sadly.
"There was an accident, with my, my sister and while everyone said "it's okay Lily, it wasn't your fault" I could see it in their eyes, they were angry at me. Oh and your eyes have changed colour." Natalie widened her eyes in shock and quickly looked down at her lap, using her hair to cover her face.
Her voice shook as she said, rather nervously "Uh, what colour?"
Lily grinned and said "A bright yellow. It's kinda awesome." To Lily' surprise, Natalie swore and muttered to herself. Her fists clenched tight and Lily could have sworn that she heard Natalie growling. Again, not very human.
Natalie was beginning to find it harder to keep control and she was breathing deeply and heavily. Realising what she was doing, she 'accidentally' dropped a galleon on the floor and she got down to get it; trying not to make eye contact with Lily. Natalie pulled a small mirror out of her pocket and looked at her eyes. Damn it, still yellow.
She put the mirror away and quickly found the galleon. However she pretended that she was still looking for it, giving herself time to cool down.
Lily meanwhile looked blankly out of the window, blinking and occasionally shaking her head, trying not to think of her sister. She seemed oblivious to Natalie crawling around on the floor.
Natalie checked her eyes again in the mirror. Luckily they had changed back to the usual stunning blue. She picked up the galleon and sat back on her seat, making eye contact with lily and smiling.
"I got my galleon. Uh, I dropped it" she said nervously. Lily looked over at her and grinned.
"Well give the girl a medal, she's done it" Lily said jokingly. Natalie didn't get the sarcasm but she grinned and shrugged. Then she heard a rattle coming from the corridor.
"Awesome, the sweet trolley!" Natalie said, bringing out her wizard money and walking into the corridor. Lily jumped up with excitement and followed Natalie, she too bringing out wizard money. Lily looked excited until she saw the sweets on offer, where her face fell.
"Great! I'll have…oh." She did not know what anything was. Natalie on the other hand, bought 10 chocolate frogs and a box of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. Lily didn't buy anything. Then they spent a long time in the compartment having fun with the stuff that Natalie bought.
"What is that?!" Lily exclaimed, staring at the boxes in Natalie's arms.
"What these?" Natalie held up a chocolate frog. "They are like muggle Easter eggs but in the shape of frogs…and they have nothing to do with Easter." She shrugged and opened the box, the frog jumping out and hopping onto the floor. Lily shrieked and slammed the compartment door.
"It moved!" Lily screamed. Natalie looked confused.
"Yeah, that's what chocolate frogs do. This is the magic world Lily and you'd better get used to it." Natalie said, before crouching on the seat. She glared down at the frog, and then she sprang up and landed on the floor, her hands over the frog. She looked like a dog that had just caught the sun's light reflecting off of someone's watch. "Gotcha!"
Lily backed away slowly. "Okay", she said slowly. "I need the toilet" Lily said, her hand on the door knob.
Natalie got up and sat on the seat, eating the frog. "There isn't one. It's a steam train." Lily blinked repeatedly, her eyes wide.
"But we've been here for about four hours. There must be one somewhere, right?" Lily said starting to hop up and down on the spot. Natalie on the other hand seemed more interested in the card in the chocolate frog box. She finished off the frog and picked up the card. Natalie moaned.
"Ugh, I got Dumbledore again" Natalie said, pulling a face. She then looked up at Lily. "Well I'm sure that steam trains don't have toilets. Learn more on the Victorians, Lily."
Natalie then turned her attention to the box of beans as Lily huffed childishly and sat down on the seat next to Natalie, her arms crossed. Natalie picked the box up and opened it, peering at the different colours inside. Lily looked nervous.
"What flavours do you get in there?" Lily asked, picking out a green one and inspecting it.
"Everything" Natalie said simply. She picked out a dark red one. Lily, surprised, put the whole green bean in her mouth. She instantly pulled a face and spat the bean out of the window.
"Yuck! Is that grass?" Lily said wrinkling her nose and shaking her head.
"Probably" Natalie said in an off-hand tone. She too was looking closely at the red bean that she had in her hand.
"I'm guessing that that's strawberry" Lily said, innocently. Natalie laughed.
"Oh you are so naïve Lily. I would be unbelievably lucky if this was strawberry" Natalie giggled before scrunching up her eyes and her face and putting the whole bean in her mouth. She chewed and slowly unscrunched her face.
"Well?" Lily said, quietly but in a hopeful voice. Natalie licked her lips slightly.
"Meh, it's okay. Blood flavour." The second she said that she wished that she had made the flavour up. Lily's eyes widened in shock.
"You're saying that it is an okay flavour?!" Lily said in an unnaturally high voice. Natalie muttered something to herself again and slapped her hand. She angrily pulled out her mirror again and looked at it. Her eyes were okay, however the centre of the iris, around the pupil, was yellow instead of blue in both eyes. She roughly put the mirror away again and picked another bean from the box, avoiding the red ones.
"You okay tiger?" Lily asked, quietly, now realising that Natalie was quite sensitive despite her tough exterior.
"I'm fine" Natalie muttered stiffly. Calm down, she thought. I could loose my only friend if I wolf out on the train.
The bean that Natalie now held was a funny purple colour. Lily also took another bean, which was a suspicious brown colour. Lily stared at it. "I'm really hoping that this is chocolate not…what I think it is" Lily said, warily. Natalie giggled silently as Lily slowly bit off half of the bean. Lily then blanched and, again, spat it out of the window.
"BLEAGH! Yup, that was what I thought it was" Lily said, sticking her tongue out and wiping it with her fingers. Natalie burst into laughter and laughed so much, her eyes started to water. Lily pouted at Natalie after wiping her tongue.
"I've had enough of these" Lily said, desperately wanting to pull out a packet of the American sweets, Redvines, out of her pocket. Natalie on the other hand, nibbled the edge of the purple bean.
"Wha-? Is that…pansies?" Natalie said in bewilderment.
"Pansies? As in the flower?" Lily said taking the rest of the purple bean and eating it. She pulled a face.
"Yeah the flower" Natalie said, on the brink of laughter as she watched Lily eat the flower bean. Lily swallowed the bean with difficulty and started to bounce around as the train started to slow down.
"We're here!"