Demonita Lillian Potter
Author:
Lady-LunaPotter
Chapter 1
Potter Manor was impressive; no one could say anything else. The house had 13 rooms, each one more impressive than the other. The garden was more likea park, and had a small lake at the end, near the forest and the quidditch pitch was not far from there. Anyone who visited would be astonished, and that'san understatement.
Demonita Potter, also called "Nita", daughter to Lily and James Potter sat in her room, with her nose in her charms book. The house was still quiet, because it was still quite early. Her parents would not wake for at least an hour yet, and Nita was always the first to wake up, even in the holidays. You may think that she was a normal teenager, who was a rebel to her parents, ignored her homework and always acted before thinking. That was not the case. Nita hadalways found the pleasure in reading and writing. She never disobeyed her parents and did always listen to them when needed.
The only thing that showedany sign of normalcy was that she loved to fly. She was an extremely good flyer and she and her father could often be seen on the pitch, racing after thesnitch, avoiding bludgers and throwing the quaffle to each other.
Nita stood up and went over to her drawer and pulled out inc and parchment and started with her essay for her charms professor. She had almost writtentwo inches when a tap from the window distracted her. It was her snowy white owl, Hedwig, coming with a letter tied around her leg. Nita stood up andopened the window for the owl, which flew right to her shoulder and waited for her mistress to take her burden.
Nita took the letter and gave it a look. It was from the ministry, what in the nine levels of hell did they want? The Potter family wasn't overly fondof the minister of magic, Fudge, but her father worked as an auror there, so they could not do anything about it. There were two letters, the first wasquite long.
Ms Potter
Here follows your exam results from your OWL level test you did at the end of the term.
Nita smiled. She had waited for this.
Course Theory grade Practical grade Course grade
TransfigurationEOE
CharmsOOO
Care of magical creaturesEEE
Defense against the dark artsOOO
PotionsEAA
Divinationn/an/an/a
Ancient RunesO-O
History of magicE-E
HerbologyOOO
Examiners: Hilda Marchbanks, Daniel Thomas, Alserf Gablook, Lars Donovan
Ms Potter, I'm pleased to say that I have never seen such a young lady, as yourself, do such splendid things as you did at your defense test. We at the ministry
have a proposition for you. We would like you to meet a Mr. Moody, former auror at the British ministry, who will give you a chance to prove what a good dueler
you are. If you pass the test, you will have the chance to take a mastery in Defense against the dark arts, so that you, in the future can teach the
course. You may wonder why we give you this chance, and the answer is this. As you know, we are at war, and we need the people to learn how to protect
themselves, so all teachers will be needed. Of course, we will check you so we know if you will make a good teacher, but we beg you to think about this.
Owl me when you have decided.
With regards
Lars Donovan
Defense Against The Dark Arts Examiner
Nita's jaw dropped to the floor. She had made 4 O´s and 3 E´s. An acceptable in Potions was expected. She had dropped divination so she didn't have a gradein that for the letter included, she was speechless. They wanted her to be a teacher? Sure, she was pretty good at the subject, but a teacher? Wait untilshe could tell her father. she had always wanted to be a healer, but who said she couldn't be both?
She took up the other parchment.
Ms Potter
Please select your new courses for the upcoming school year. Some of the courses will be taught at Hogwarts school, and some of them will be taught at the
ministry of magic. Please send us your answer before august 11th. Note that your choice will decide your future career.
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress, Hogwarts.
Nita scanned the list of courses
Dance
Dueling
Defense against the dark arts (advanced)
Potions (advanced)
Material Arts
Charms (advanced)
Transfiguration (advanced)
Care of magical creatures (advanced)
Magical Healing (Hogwarts and Ministry)
Muggle Healing (Ministry)
Herbology (advanced)
Politics (Ministry)
Laws and enforcement (Ministry)
Dark creatures and their powers (Ministry)
Wandless Magic (You have to do a test for this course, not all wizards or witches are capable of this) (Ministry)
You can also choose to do an apparation test, and take a muggle car license.
If you, for some reason want more information about the electives, please notify the department for education and learning.
Nita bit her lip. This was a hard one. She couldn't take them all, not that she wanted to, but all of them seemed interesting. She tossed the list on herbed and picked up her charms book, and laid it on the desk. The clock was now 8.30 and she started to get dressed. She put on a beachdress and a pair of sandals. She tied her hair in a bun in the middle of her head and put on a pair of sunglasses.
When Nita made it to the dining room, a house elf, Twinky, showed up with a loud pop´.
"What can Twinky do for mistress Demona?" the house elf said with a squeak. The house elves had always called her Demona, for some odd reason. "Can I have somepancakes and a slice of bred please? And a cup of coffee?" The elf nodded. "Yes mistress, right away, miss."
Two minutes later, the house elf came back with her meal and she started to read. When she was nearly done, a brown owl came flying through the open window.
The owl landed on the table and dropped The Prophet right in front of her plate. She gave the owl some money and took up the paper The headlines screamed:
Death Eaters in Diagon Alley
Yesterday evening in Diagon Alley, a hand full of Death Eaters apparated into the crowded alley. They started to throw hexes at the panicking people, and ittook the aurors an hour before they could catch two of them, and after that, the rest of them vanished. Three people were killed and seventy were injured.
The minister of magic, Cornelius Fudge, said to our reporter...
Nita stopped reading and sighed. Every day the headlines were screaming about death and Death Eater raids. If it wasn't about that, it was about the ministryand their lack of competence. The public thought that the aurors were too slow, and the minister too arrogant.
Her father, who was one of the most skilled aurors at the ministry, worked 24/7 at the ministry now a days. when he came home, he slept. Now, he had takena brake from work for one week, to the Ministers dismay, to spend some time with her and her mother. She was happy to have him home.
Her mother had done the same thing. She worked at St Mungoes, as a Healer, and had as much of a job as her husband. But now they had decided that they needed sometime together.
Nita looked up when her father and mother walked through the door and took a seat next to her. "Good morning, mum, dad." Her father smiled at her. "Goodmorning darling." her mother gave her a kiss on her forehead.
"So, what do we do today?" Her father called a house elf and ordered pancakes for himself andhis wife. Nita gave her father and mother a smile.
"My OWL results came today." Her mother looked at her. "How did you do?" Nita told them about her results, and about the offer from Lars Donovan.
"I knowLars, he is a good pal." Her father told her, he could not help but be proud of his daughter. When she told them about who was going to test her her fatherseyes went big as plates.
"Moody is the best of the best, I can't believe they make you duel against him!" He took his daughters hands. "I know you are aextremely good dueler, but I don't know..."
Nita stood up. "What can he do dad? He can't kill me." She turned to her mother. "Mum?" Her green-eyed mother looked at James. "I don't know..."
Nita turned to her father. " If I can beat dad in a duel, can I go then?"