Chapter 1: The Grimwald Place
Crystle's eyes snapped open; she sat up looking around to see what had woken her up. Then she noticed that her father was standing next to her sister's bed. He heard her and turned to face her.
"Good, your up." He said, "Do you think you can help me get Amber up? I still have to wake up Jess." Crystle turned around and looked at the clock on her bedside table, it read 1:16.
"Dad it's 1:00 in the morning! What are you doing?"
"We are going to the Grimwald Place, remember? We couldn't leave during the day because of the neighbors. So get up Amber, and get your stuff and take it downstairs."
He left the room. Slowly Crystle got out of bed, annoyed at her for forgetting that they were going to the Grimwald Place. She got up her sister, and they packed in silence.
Crystle and Amber were fraternal twins that lived with their dad, and their older brother; their mother had been killed by a deatheater a few months after she and her sister had been born. Luckily their father was visiting his mother with the girls and Jess. Crystle and Amber were very different in appearance, Crystle had crystal blue eyes and long strawberry-blond hair and Amber had brown eyes with a hint of amber and short brown hair, but had similar personalities, but enough differences to land them in different houses at Hogwarts; Amber was in Ravenclaw and Crystle was in Gryffindor. Jess, their brother, who had one year left at Hogwarts, was in Gryffindor also.
The girls joined their dad and brother downstairs after they had finished packing. Crystle's brother and sister looked as tired as she felt, but her father seemed wide-awake. They dragged their trunks outside, and their father threw out his right arm, with his wand in it. There was a loud BANG, and the vivid purple Knight Bus appeared before them.
A man around the age of 20 stepped off the bus, and began to introduce himself.
"'Ello my name is Stan, and this is the Knight Bus- But Crystle's father cut him off, "Yes, yes. We know all about the Knight Bus. We booked four beds a couple of weeks ago. We need to get to London. Grimwald street, please."
Stan looked up, and then checked a clipboard next to him.
"You is supposed to be picked up at 1:30." He said, but Crystle's father interjected again, "Well we're early, is that a problem?"
Stan shrugged and helped them load their 4 trunks and 4 cages containing Amber's owl, Pepper, Crystle's cat, Skeeter, Jesse's owl, Churn, and the family owl, Asiel. Once the luggage was loaded onto the bus they left Mason Street, along with their house, with a loud BANG. Crystle and Amber grabbed onto each other to stay standing, while Jess picked himself up off the floor.
"You ok?" asked Amber.
"Yeah. I think so." Said Jess, but as soon as the words were out of his mouth he was back on the floor. Crystle and Amber heaved him up onto his feet, and then sat down on the bed closest to them.
"How long is it going to take to get there?" Jess asked Stan.
"'Bout 20 minutes." He said with a smirk at look at them, and Jess, Crystle and Amber groaned.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (20 minutes later)
"'Eres your stop." Said Stan helping them with their luggage, followed closely by Mr. Potter, Jess, and the twins. As the girls were walking down the steps the leave the Knight Bus, they heard Jess gasp. Hurrying down the steps they gasped too.
Standing on the sidewalk was no other than Albus Dumbledore.
"Hello Jason, safe trip?" he said to the girl's father as he walked over to them.
"Yeah, but it took a while to get everyone ready. So what are you doing here anyways Dumbledore?" Mr. Potter replied.
"I am checking up on everyone and getting reports, so I thought I might as well meet you here." Smiled Dumbledore with a twinkle in his eye.
Dumbledore started walking towards the other side of the street then turned to the four people standing behind him.
"Listen carefully, okay? You need to memorize this. The Order of the Phoenix can be found at number 12 Grimwald Place."
Crystle didn't understand why Dumbledore was telling them this, so thinking about what he had said she turned to her father and looked for an answer.
"Look over there," he said when he saw her looking at him, pointing. Following his finger she saw that it was pointing between two houses, "Now think about what you just heard". Crystle thought and looked at the spot where her father had been pointing and it was all she could do to stop from gasping. Out of nowhere it seemed a house appeared, pushing the other houses on either side away and making room for itself.
"Come on Crystle!" she heard Amber form in front of her, and snapped back to life, followed her sister, and the others to the door of the house. Dumbledore knocked on the old run down door, and a woman with flaming red hair answered.
(F.Y.I.: This is a little bit updated. I just figured out how to change stuff in the chapters I have already put up. I still don't know how to do or read reviews so if your reading this and do know please tell me though e- mail. You can find that under my pen name. The main character in this story (Crystal) is based off a person I made up for my characters. I would give the address of the homepage I made for my characters, but it won't show up on fanfic. So I'll just break it down into pieces, www. Freewebs. com /luthrengreenleaf just leave out all the spaces and you have an address. I hope you all will leave good reviews!)