Title: Seventeen Ain't So Sweet
Quote: "There's a scream in your voice and I hope you'll be heard."
Summary: Samantha Beckett has the perfect life. She is a chaser on the Gryffindor quidditch team with her captain and best friend Oliver Wood, a good student and has caught the Hufflepuff seeker, Cedric Diggory's attention. Her social life comes crash down when her sister starts to date Charlie Weasley and Sam is forced to spend time with Ron Weasley and company
Chapter One
Summary: Introduction.
Hello, first I just want to let you know that my timeline maybe a little off as well as a few other things, this is the sixth year and although there will be a tri-wizard tournament I'm not really focusing on it too much and some things are a bit different...maybe a bunch of things but I hope you enjoy it anyway.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and the Characters etc, etc. Well except my oc's: D
Sixth year at Hogwarts started all too soon. Fifth year had gone by so fast, but I guess time really does fly when your having fun. Each year just got better and I was eagerly awaiting what my sixth year would bring.
I arrived at the Hogwarts Express a tad bit early the train usually leaves King's Cross station at eleven o'clock sharp. It was only 9:30 and I only had half an hour before crowds of students would show up and ruin the silence.
I sat in the compartment I usually sat in since my first year. I have a big family. Besides having two older sisters I have a million cousins. Well maybe I'm over reacting. I leaned back in my seat daydreaming about my first year.
Flashback:
A petite brunette wandered King's cross-station occasionally stepping up on her toes to see above the crowd.
"Samantha! Samantha! Over here!" Called a thin figure with long strawberry blond hair. Sam followed the voice until she recognized whom it belonged to.
Alicia Spinnet waved her cousin down.
"Alicia where have you been?" Samantha asked frustrated.
She had been wandering around this dam train station for almost thirty minutes now pushing through all the students and their luggage.
"Never mind about that I just found Sean and Roger. Roger knows his way around he's a second year now." Samantha snickered.
"Well let's hope the power of leading us first years around Hogwarts and the train doesn't go to his head." Alicia laughed at her cousin's comment.
"That is so like Roger." Alicia guided her cousin over to their other cousins Sean and Roger Davies.
"Hey Alicia, Sam." They greeted. The four walked down the train's hall passing by all the empty compartments, until Sam reached one that was perfectly empty.
Roger Davies was a second year Hogwarts student and his brother Sean and Alicia were the same age as Samantha Beckett who were starting their first year of Hogwarts.
Samantha Beckett was the youngest daughter of Olivia and Nicolas Beckett. She had two older sisters, Emily and Jane. Emily was off in her own compartment with her seventh year friends and Jane had already left Hogwarts last year and was on to bigger things.
Sam was glad she had her cousins with her. She was mainly close to Alicia and Sean. Sean and Roger's parents are Delaney (Sam's father's sister) and Barry Davies, and Alicia's parents Madeline (Sam's father's sister) and George Spinnet.
Delaney was the oldest daughter of her grandparents Albert Beckett and Anna Tonks, whose brother is Ted Tonks, who married Andromeda and whose daughter is Nymphadora Tonks.
Complicated…yes. Sam had a lot of cousins. Sam and Alicia were very close, their parents, Nicolas and Madeline were in fact twins.
Samantha had two more cousins not yet in Hogwarts. Her mother's younger brother Fredrick Greengrass married Liberty Russ a pretty curly haired blond. Their two children Daphne and Astoria were not as close with Sam. They were a bit snobby if you asked her.
"Where is Sean?" Roger huffed.
Sam rolled her dark brown eyes. "I'll go find him Roger keep calm."
Sam stepped out of the compartment not looking where she was going and bumped into none other then her future best friend Oliver Wood.
"Oh sorry." She said looking up.
"It's not a problem, but it helps if you watch where your going you know, next time you might get hurt." He smiled.
At that same time Sam looked up to see a brown haired boy smirk at her clumsiness and walked into his compartment.
She returned her attention to Oliver Wood and soon after that invited him into the compartment where they engaged in a heated discussion revolving around quidditch, the boy was obsessed.
End of Flashback
I smiled at myself that was the first time I saw Cedric Diggory. I had the biggest crush on him all year. Poor Sean, he had been sorted into Hufflepuff with Cedric and had to hear about it.
But enough was enough and finally I had to shut up. My attention was piqued when I hear loud voices in the hall, but when I poked my head out the compartment door I sighed and returned my gazed to outside the window, it was only first years after all.
I had been lucky in my first year I had been sorted into Gryffindor with my cousin Alicia Spinnet and my best friend Oliver Wood. There I met Katie Bell, Angelina Johnson, Lee Jordon, and Fred and George the Weasley twins.
My cousin Sean had been sorted into Hufflepuff with Cedric and Roger who was already apart of the Ravenclaw house where my friend Cho Chang was sorted.
The next year Daphne Greengrass was sorted into Slytherin with that rude blond haired kid and that pansy girl that were making all sorts of disturbances on the train.
Harry Potter who was the seeker of my Gryffindor quidditch team, the twin's brother Ron and that fuzzy haired girl Hermione something was also sorted into Gryffindor.
I continued to gaze out the window at my reflection scrutinizing my appearance. All three of the Beckett girls were said to be very lovely. My great grandmother Gwendolyn Valora was a vela making my grandmother Jiennabelle Baline half vela and my mother Olivia Greengrass-Beckett one-fourth vela and me and my two sisters one-eighth vela.
Which I was happy to only inherit the somewhat beauty of a vela and maybe the fiery temper of one but not the whole turning into a crazy looking bird thing. And for that I was grateful.
Personally I think my two older sisters used up all the beauty genes. Both have long dark brown hair, Emily the middle child and Jane the oldest both shared my mother's blue eyes, and beauty.
Although we all share the same porcelain doll skin, my sisters were far more beautiful then my plain self.
I heard a loud knock on the compartment door breaking my daydreaming stare on the window.
"About time you got here." I said turning around.
Oliver looked around the compartment.
"When have you ever know her to be on time?" I said knowing that Alicia was supposed to be here by now.
"Of course." He said with a sarcastic grin taking the seat next to her.
The soft silence was completely broken when Sean Davies, Alicia Spinnet and the Weasley twins barged into the compartment laughing, no more than a minute later Katie Bell and Angelina Johnson tugged their luggage in along with them as they were in a heated discussion about their summer and Lee Jordon following behind them.
They all pushed and shoved yells of "Ouch!" and "Bloody Hell!" Filtered through the compartment everyone trying to take a seat but unsuccessfully fitting.
"Oy Did we always fit in one compartment?" Katie yelled over the noise more then she asked us.
"Someone's gained weight, that's why were not fitting in one compartment." Fred shouted and George snickered.
"Oh boy." I thought.
"Move over Alicia said pushing Oliver who fell into me. His arms had gotten bigger over the summer, I noticed as his arms were at my sides and within moments pulled them away and composed himself once again.
"Okay, everyone settle down, I'm getting some air I'll be back!" I announced getting up as I managed to make my way out of the compartment which moments ago was filled with space.
I closed the compartment door and leaned against it. I honestly love my friends and my cousins but it was just way to crowded in there. I looked up when I noticed my cousins Daphne and Astoria walking in my compartment's hallway.
I gave them a smile and waved. As sisters they were very close but Daphne and her sister being Slytherin girls hung around Pansy Parkinson and Draco Malfoy and had wanted little to do with any Gryffindor's during the school year.
Both shared the same blond curls, Daphne's hair reaching her shoulders and Astoria's reaching almost to the small of her back. To be honest I had always been a little jealous of my Slytherin cousins.
They were very pretty and popular but no one outside the Slytherin house had ever wanted anything to do with them and that I wasn't jealous of. I liked being friends with some of the girls in Ravenclaw and especially a certain boy in Hufflepuff.
Daphne and Astoria waved sheepishly and hurried off to meet the Parkinson girl. The only time I ever really talked to them was on holidays and when they would sometimes come over to dinner usually in the summer.
I turned the corner quickly almost running into the tall dark and handsome Cedric Diggory.
"Whoa." He said steadying my shoulders. I looked up.
"Oh Cedric, sorry I wasn't really looking where is was going." He smiled his perfect crooked smile and instantly I melted.
"It's fine, how was your summer?" he said his hand against the wall as he leaned in to hear my answer.
"It was a good summer, played a lot of quidditch, I even went to go see a game, how about you?"
Cedric one again smiled. "Not bad, but I'm glad I'm back at school." He said staring into my dark eyes.
His silver ones were intense and gorgeous all at the same time. I could feel his breath tickle my cheek and I blushed slightly.
"Well I'll see you around Samantha" And with that Cedric Diggory continued walking down the hall politely nodding at Alicia Spinnet as he passed her.
Alicia's mouth was wide open gaping at me. I stood there still pink in the face.
"Not one word until we get settled at Hogwarts." I said giving the most serious glare I could possibly come up with.
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