My Mission
CHAPTER 1 "Hogwarts? Really?"
I was sitting on my bed with my mom looking at this
green and silver model of a snake and a model of a lion that is red, yellow,
and white. My mom was telling me that the snake was for the heir of Slytherin
and the lion was for the heir of Gryffindor. I sit there confused, and
think: how, what? Mom? What are you talking about, what is this some cruel
joke?
Then a man shows up, he had pale blond hair and
was fairly tall. He took the snake and tries to make a move for the lion,
but it zooms right to my mom's hand, and she says, "Get out Lucius!"
So he apparates. Then three other people show up
in my room. They take a look at my Harry Potter stuff and look very confused,
but then begin to talk. They tell us that they are aurors, and that it
is my mission to take the lion to the heir of Gryffindor, Harry Potter.
I stand there in shock. What? Harry's real? No it
can't be! Despite my shock they take me outside along with my two younger
sisters. They tell us that we will be going to Hogwarts this year. I freak,
Hogwarts! They say that they know that one of us has a wand, I pull out
the wand my dad made me for Christmas, I tell them that it doesn't work,
and that it has no core, its just a piece of Mahogany wood that my dad
turned to look like a wand from the movie. They tell me to try it, it should
work. So I try a simple "Lumos" spell because it's dark outside.
And it works! A small beam of light came out of the tip of my wand. I'm
so excited that it actually worked that I forgot what the spell was to
turn it off was. I ask if anyone remembers and one of the aurors says "Nox."
I practically hit myself I knew that.
I then ask how are all three of us going to go to
Hogwarts, seeing how we are all different ages. They say that Rachel (the
youngest) will be a first year even though she's a year too young, Dumbledore
said that it was okay.
"Melissa" (the one in the middle) "will be a third
year; she will be with kids her age and you will be a fifth year. But you
and Melissa will require a tutor for the rest of the summer to make it
look like that you know what you are talking about," said the girl auror
that had introduced herself as Jen.
The male auror asks the other girl auror who that
is and she says "Percy Weasley… I told you that before."
"Oy! Ron's older brother!" I say.
"Yes, how did you know that?" they ask.
So I go into detail about the books and how I've
read them all. They look at each other and say that they need to find this
'J.K. Rowling' and find out how she knew about the magical world. I tell
them that it would be impossible to modify everyone's memories. The whole
world knows about Harry Potter. They look at each other with a look of
panic.
"Well lets get going," I say. "I can't wait to go
to Hogwarts, meet all of these people I've been reading about for four
years."
The other girl auror pulls out a box and shows us
a basketball. She looks at it like as if it is the oddest thing that she
has ever seen.
"Oh! A portkey!" my sister Rachel and I exclaim.
"Yes… so I take it you all know how this works?"
she says.
"No, Melissa here hasn't read 'Goblet of Fire' yet,"
I say.
"Don't worry Melissa," Rachel says, "all you've
got to do is touch it when she says so."
"Very good Rachel," the auror says, "okay everyone
put your hand on this weird round thing. It'll go in about two minutes."
"Bye Mom!" my sisters and I yell.
Then there is a jerk behind my bellybutton and after
about 10 minutes of that, we are outside of a house.
There is a semi-truck outside of the house; I look
at the address of the house, 14 Privet Drive says the sign at the end of
the street. The aurors notice what I'm looking at; "No, Harry isn't there,
he's at the Weasley's. This is Mrs. Figg's house, she's going to be here
in a couple hours, she took one of her cats to the Vet in Diagon Alley."
I help unpack the stuff from the truck. There's
a book called: Who's who in Wizarding World.
We get all of the stuff downstairs into a room with
orange carpeting. We get it all packed up according to who needs what.
Then suddenly, there's banging on the door. I run
upstairs and look through the white curtains… It looks like Hagrid… but
something tells me in the back of my brain that it is Lucius Malfoy. I
have the lion carefully packed in my trunk downstairs. But fearing the
power that Lucius had I call out "Jen! Where's your Floo powder?"
She runs upstairs hands me a bowl and tells me that
all the beans and nuts need to be crushed to make Floo powder. I run back
downstairs and tell my sisters to get all of our stuff near the fireplace
in the next room. There is no fire, so I take out my wand and say
"Incendio" and there is now a roaring flame in there. "Rachel, explain
to Melissa how we get to the Weasley's."
"I know, I read the second book," Melissa retaliates.
"Oh, yeah… well remember it's the Burrow."
I sit down to crush all the beans and nuts; I'm
almost done when I hear the front door open. And I say "Where's Ron and
Hermione when you need them?" Jen was lying crumpled on the floor; Lucius
Malfoy has just gotten in the house.
A/N: Isn't that a cruel ending?! I thought so too… therefore I decided
to continue it!