'Ello my readers! And welcome to another chapter of The Cullens come to Hogwarts, A Remake!
I'm pretty excited in rewriting this story, because I seriously want to write this story the right way - the way it was supposed to be written all along.
I am going to make sure that I will get the Harry Potter facts straight in this story, that way I won't mess up this rewrite of the story.
Anyways, let's get on with the story.
Chapter TWO
~Bella Cullen/"McCarty"~
"That was a nice, long train ride." Reneesme murmured up to me, where I could hear her perfectly clear over the noise of the carriages that was being driven by a skinny weird looking creature, though it appeared to be invisible to other students. "It was, sweetie." I told her, smiling while stroking back some of her hair.
"I had to restrain myself from strangling Ron though. He kept thinking rather vulgar thoughts towards you." Edward whispered to me, kissing my ear. "Well, even if you were going to attack your you new wizard friends, we would've stopped you." Jasper cut in from across us, lifting himself up from Alice's neck. "Of course we would have to get Nessie out of there so she wouldn't have to see her dad killing someone." Rosalie added in as well, giggling while snuggling into Emmett's side more; all of us were together in this carriage that was heading towards the large castle of the Hogwarts school.
"True." Alice stated, laughing. "I was only kidding, sheesh. Like I would expose us from a wizard in training while he was thinking about my wife." Edward grumbled, rolling his golden eyes. "Well, now that we're here at the school, did Professor Dumbledore tell us who were supposed to be protecting in particular?" Emmett asked, scratching his dark curly haired head.
"Yeah, he did. He said that Edward is supposed to be protecting Harry Potter, while I'm supposed to be protecting Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley together. Reneesme is going to be protecting Ron's little sister, Ginny. You're supposed to be protecting someone by the name of Luna Lovegood and someone else named Cho Chang, Alice. Jasper and Emmett, you're supposed to be protecting Ron's older twin brothers, Fred and George, and Rosalie, you're supposed to be protecting someone by the name of Neville Longbottom. All in all, these few people are connected to Harry in his friendship." I explained, nodding to myself after I tacked off the list.
"Wow, that's a lot of people to look out for." Reneesme commented, giggling. "Well, we're immortal, so we can handle all of this... right?" Emmett asked, sounding unsure. "We'll just have to wait and see, Em. First things first; we need to figure out how to do some of these spells. It will make us look really stupid if everyone sees us unable to do any spells. So, tonight, let's sneak out of our dorms and get to practicing some spells. We'll do this for every night and see what we can do." Edward suggested.
"Momma, what about me and Jakey? We'll need our sleep." Reneesme cut in, frowning up at me. "We'll tell you some spells that we've learned, and maybe some of us will have to cut dinner in order to help you learn the spells over night, honey." I assured her, kissing her pale cheek.
The carriage came to a stop in front of the large steps of the castle, where I could see the other students in the school getting out of the carriage and making their way towards the castle. We followed their example, before we slowly walked up the steps that led to large doors of the castle. We were now standing in a large entrance hall, while I could see the other students - minus us, and some of the youngest, small students - entering into a room where I could see golden plates and goblets and everything on top of long wooden tables that had benches.
"Ah, the Cullen family. I see that all of you have arrived here safely." I turned around when I heard Professor Dumbledore's voice coming up from behind us. "Hello, Professor Dumbledore." Edward greeted him, shaking his hand. "So, are you all excited to be sorted into one of the few houses we have here?" Dumbledore asked. "Yes, we are. I'm very curious as to where Reneesme is going." I told him, sighing. "Wherever she will be, whether she's placed with us or not, we'll make sure she's protected, love." Edward assured me, kissing my lips briefly.
"Well, after the first years are all sorted, Professor McGonagall will call you in so you can be sorted in after them. I wish all of you luck in your future houses; I must be heading off into the Great Hall." Dumbledore told us, making his way over to the Great Hall and disappearing inside. Shortly after, a witch with tight lips, her dark hair pulled back in a tight bun and wearing velvety green dress robes, peeked her head out of the large Great Hall doors, and motioned the young first years inside.
We heard several first years names being called out and assigned to one of the four houses. "Now, before I let all of you eat this extravagant meal prepared by our house elves, I must announce the arrival of seven new students who come from an American Wizard school. Please welcome the McCarty Siblings, the Cullen Siblings, and the Hale twins." Dumbledore announced, while the same witch earlier motioned for the Cullen family inside the Great Hall.
Edward and Reneesme went first, with Rosalie and Jasper behind them, then Alice, Emmett and I in the back of the group. We filed inside and took the stares we were receiving in stride; I could see Esme, Carlisle and Jake at the table in the back of the large hall, smiling at us - or in Jake's way, quietly chuckling. At least we'll have the last laugh because he looks ridiculous in his odd dress robes.
We hurried to the front of the hall, and went over to our other halves, while Reneesme stood in front of Edward and I. The witch who ushered us in here came up to the stool that was in front of the hall, where a old weathered wizard hat sat on top of the old stool. She pulled out a rolled up parchment, and then called out, "Cullen, Edward!"
Edward placed a chaste butterfly peck on my cheek, and kissing Reneesme's bronze hair, he made his way over to the stool, where he placed the hat on his head. Mostly every girl in the room began to ogle my husband freely, giggling and gossiping to their friends about how handsome and "dashing" he looks in his school robes. I do admit, my vampire husband does look very handsome in the black robes, but I still wasn't happy that other girls were noticing him.
"GRYFFINDOR!" a loud booming voice yelled out; I looked over at where Edward sat, and saw that he was grinning up at the hat, while the table that was red and gold, began cheering loudly for their newest member. Edward took off the hat and made his way over to the table, seating himself by Harry while thankfully, he avoided the girls at the table who were ogling him.
"Cullen, Reneesme." the witch called out next. Reneesme waved up at me before she skipped to the stool. She plopped down on it fluidly, and placed the hat on her head with much adjusting because it was very big on her little head. Finally, she sat there with the hat somewhat tilted at an angle while she kicked her feet back and forth because her legs were too short to reach the ground.
"GRYFFINDOR!" the hat roared out to the room, where again, the Gryffindor table cheered for my daughter, Edward included. Reneesme giggled, before she hopped down and made her way over to Edward, sitting down next to him. While Harry, Ron and Hermione welcomed Reneesme to the table, the witch called out the next person to the stool.
"Hale, Jasper." Jasper kissed Alice on the lips quickly before he stiffly made his way to the stool. He sat himself down on it in a quick motion, his expression looking uncomfortable by being surrounded by all of these wizards and witches filled with blood. I heard Alice whisper comforting words in vampire speeds to Jasper, while he had the hat on his head.
"RAVENCLAW!" the hat shouted, and the table that had dark purples, blues and blacks, cheered for Jasper. He sighed and taking off the hat, he made his way to the table, sitting down and leaving space for anyone of us - if any of us - were going to join Ravenclaw with him.
"Hale, Rosalie." the witch called out next. Rosalie smoothed out her hair quickly, before she strutted her way up to the stool. Every male - besides my husband, and Jasper - paid close attention to Rosalie when they got their first glimpse at her. I could hear some of the males' hearts in the school begin to quicken while the waited with impatience, to hear which house Rosalie will be placed in. She disdainfully looked at the old hat, but grudgingly placed it on her blond head, sitting with her long legs crossed over one another, and waited for herself to be sorted.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat roared; I believe the Hufflepuff table - the one table that consisted of yellow and burgundy as the colors - had out-cheered the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw table combined. Sighing in what looked like relief, Rosalie made her way over to the table. "Why does she looked relieved?" I asked Alice in vampire speeds. "At first, I saw Rosalie being placed in Slytherin, but then I guess the hat changed its mind and placed her in Hufflepuff." Alice explained, shrugging quickly.
"McCarty, Alice." the witch called out next. Alice smiled and pecking my cheek quickly, she skipped her way to the stool - much like how Reneesme approached the stool. Alice sat herself down in the seat, and placed the hat on her head, looking actually like her cute self as usual while wearing that weathered hat and her school robes.
"RAVENCLAW!" the hat roared; the Ravenclaw table cheered loudly for Alice, who smiled and then hopped up, before she made her way over to Jasper. He wrapped his arms around her waist when she seated herself beside him. She smiled up at him, then rested her head on his shoulder, before they looked up at me and Emmett.
"McCarty, Emmett." the witch called next. Emmett smirked, and embracing me in his signature bone crushing hug that would kill me if I were still a human, he bounded his way up to the stool I had to hold in my laughter from how funny Emmett looked while sitting on the tiny small circular stool, and the weathered hat on his head looked pretty small too.
Several minutes later, the hat roared out, "HUFFLEPUFF!" The very same table that cheered loudly for Rosalie did the same for Emmett. Emmett grinned his big dopey grin, and then lumbered his way over to the Hufflepuff table, seating himself by Rosalie where he engulfed her in a searing kiss that caused most of the Hufflepuffs to look away.
Now there was only -
"McCarty, Isabella." the witch called out to me, the last of my family to be sorted. I took a unnecessary breath, before I shyly made my way to the stool. I sat down on it, and placed the hat on my head, while then I waited for something to happen. Open your mind, young vampire. I heard a voice say to me. Oh, uh, sorry. I thought to myself, while I released and opened my mind shield up.
Hmm, my, my; what a talented, courageous and vampire you are, my dear. the same voice complimented me. Um, thank you? I thought questioningly. You were sure one for attracting danger towards you when you were a human. First that vampire boy who is your husband now, I presume; then that shape-shifter over at the table who is now a teacher. Then, attracting all of those vampires and such towards you and your loved ones, all from the chain reaction of killing one vampire. One can only imagine the impossible and hard decisions you had to make. the voice mused.
Well, it sure was an adventure into getting where I am now. I thought to myself, mentally sighing. I can see that from your mind, young vampire. Well, I know just the house that will suit you perfectly. the voice stated.
"GRYFFINDOR!" the hat roared out, where the Gryffindor table cheered for me, their newest housemate. Smiling in relief for being placed in the same house as my small family, I got up from the stool, leaving the hat there, and made my way over to Edward's side, a space prepared for me. I sat next to him, and greeted him with a slow kiss, before I kissed Reneesme's head next.
"Now, before, again, I let all of you dig in into your meals, I would also like to introduce everyone to four new additions in the teaching staff. We have Mister Black; he'll be our new Muggle Studies teacher. Then we have Mrs. Cullen who will be our new Herbology teacher. Her husband, Dr. Cullen, will be the new assistant to Madam Pomfrey in the hospital wing. And finally, we have Professor Umbridge, who will be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts." Dumbledore announced, introducing our three family members, and the small plump lady at the end who was actually wearing something different from the dark colored robes of the other teachers. She wore a somewhat tweed looking pink dress underneath a matching colored shrug, and from underneath the table, I could see her pink pumps. She had somewhat of a small face, with beady eyes and short, poofed brown curled-ended hair.
"As usual, the Forbidden Forest is off limits to anyone unless you are in the Care for Magical Creatures class, and of course..." Professor Dumbledore rambled on about the rules of the school, and when he was done, he announced that everyone could begin eating, with food beginning to appear on the golden plates that were in front of us.
"Aren't you two going to eat?" Ron asked us around his shoveled food that he stuffed into his mouth quickly, pointing at us and then at our plates with his fork. "Uh, we had a big breakfast before coming here." Edward hurriedly lied, patting his stomach and nodding. I nodded along with him, going along with his lie.
Ron shrugged, but didn't bother with any further questioning. "So, all of you came from America?" Hermione asked us, looking up from her cutting into her food. "Yeah, we did. We all came from a small town called Forks, in the state of Washington." I told her, smiling. "It usually rains there, so well just fit right in with the light overcast here." Edward added in. "Well, it does sometimes get sunny here, so hopefully you're not too opposed to the sun." Harry told us.
"Nah, we're fine with the sun." Edward said, though I could tell that he was lying about this one as well. We weren't going to be happy when it will get sunny here, because that means more exposure of our secret.
The wizards and witches surrounding us continued on eating the disgusting - at least disgusting to my family and I - food in front of them, until it disappeared and the plates were clean. Professor Dumbledore dismissed us so we could go to our houses and settle into the night; get ourselves well rested for classes tomorrow.
We walked out of the Great Hall, and into a large room filled with twisting and moving stair cases. "Whoa..." Reneesme said out loud, staring up at every staircase in pure awe. "All part of the magical castle." Harry informed us, chuckling. Our house got on a staircase set, and just when we got on, it began moving. We rode the staircase, and followed our house to one of the many levels of the castle, before we stopped in front of a painting of a large lady in a pink dress.
"Password?" the painting asked. "Bertie Botts*." someone said to the painting. Seconds later, it swung outwards where I could see the inside of the Gryffindor dormitories. Us Gryffindors stepped inside the tower of our house, and there we entered the room that was known as the Common Room - since Edward had told me about from reading this from one of the Gryffindor's minds.
The room was rather small, with leather couches and armchairs placed in front of a crackling fire, while many banners hung up on the wall and a large grandfather clock was off near the back of the room, next to two hallways that were of winding staircases - probably leading up to the boys' dormitories, and the other to the girls' dormitories.
All of the boys went up the staircase to their bedrooms, so Reneesme and I had to said goodbye to Edward for now. I led Reneesme up to her year's room, and after kissing her forehead, I let her go inside, before I followed after Hermione up to our room. I got dressed in my pajamas without anyone really staring at me, and when I was done, I lied down on the top of my red velvety bed that had matching curtains to close out the person who is sleeping.
I heard the other girls closing their curtains on their bed, and waited for awhile, until I heard all of their hearts slowing down to a steady beat, and their breathing was evened out - meaning they had all fallen asleep. Once I was sure that every girl was asleep, I slipped out of my bed, and quickly changed out of my clothes into something more comfortable - basically, my t-shirt and jeans.
I quietly made my way out of the fifth year girls' sleeping chamber, then made my way down the winding staircase, only pausing minutely at the second year girls' chamber, and listened for her abnormal heart. I smiled when I still heard it thumping loudly, so that meant she was still awake. I sighed and then quietly opened the door, peaking my head inside. There, I saw a flurry of bronze jump up and quietly race towards me, before she was outside of her sleeping chamber, wearing a comfortable cotton dress Alice wanted me to pack for her.
"I hope you do realize that you're going to have to sleep tomorrow night." I whispered to my daughter, picking her up in my arms while making the rest of the way downstairs with her in my arms. "I know, Momma. I just want to learn a few spells tonight." she murmured, burying her face in my cold neck.
"Well, if Daddy gets mad, then you have to take the blame this time." I murmured back, smirking. She giggled quietly, but nodded reluctantly.
I made it to the Gryffindor Common Room, and just when I set foot into the room, Edward came from around the corner of the winding staircase. He wore something more comfortable as well - his black sweater with dark jeans - and when he saw us, he smiled his signature crooked grin. "I see we have a night-owl with us tonight." Edward teased our daughter, coming over to where we stood and kissed Reneesme's cheek, then my lips.
"So, what are we going to learn tonight?" I asked him quietly, making my way over to the couches and sitting down, letting Reneesme crawl out from my arms and sit closely next to me, her side snuggled into mine. "Let's just get the simple spells out of the way for tonight; then, we'll gradually make our way up. We can ask Hermione, Ron or Harry for help on any spells if we get stuck." Edward suggested, coming over to where we sat while producing a large, heavy looking spell book out from behind his back, and placed it in front of us.
Tonight, Edward and I had gotten several spells down - like the levitating charm, "Wingardium Leviosa" and the spell that pulls the targeted object closer to the caster, "Accio". Unfortunately for Reneesme, she was only able to master the "Accio" spell for tonight. Early in the morning, we all went back up to our sleeping chambers and changed into our newly school robes - ones that had the Gryffindor crest stitched into the robe.
I made my way back downstairs, and went into the common room to see that Edward was waiting there for us, still looking handsome as ever in his school robes. Minutes later, after I sat down on Edward's lap and greeted him with a bright, imaginative kiss that was still "PG-13 rated", Reneesme came skipping down the winding staircase and ran to where Edward and I sat.
"Momma, what if someone asks me to do some difficult spell?" Reneesme asked me quietly, where none of the other students could hear us. "Oh, they shouldn't ask, honey. You are a second year after all. If anyone is going to be asking any of us to do difficult spells, it will be your mother and I who will have to do them." Edward assured her quietly.
"Oh, right." Reneesme said, shaking her head at herself.
"Hey guys, morning." we looked up after hearing Ron's voice, and saw that Harry and Hermione were right behind him, looking somewhat still sleepy. "Morning." I greeted them back, waving slightly. "How long have you guys been up?" Harry asked, rubbing at his eyes sleepily. "Oh, um, just for a few minutes." Edward hastily replied, faking a yawn quickly after he saw Hermione yawn. Reneesme yawned as well, nodding her little bronze head.
"Well, how about we head down to the Great Hall for breakfast before we go to our classes?" Hermione suggested. "Okay." Reneesme said, jumping up from the couch and skipping towards the porthole of the Gryffindor Common Room ahead of us. We got up from the couch and followed after Reneesme, with Ron, Harry and Hermione following behind us.
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~*Lady Lily of Darkness*~
*I don't know if that would be a right password for the Gryffindors; can anyone suggest some "Gryffindor"-y passwords to me if they think that the password in this chapter wasn't really good?*