Hi guys. Here's chapter 2, which isn't very long, so I'm posting it now and not on Sunday. I would also like to apologize for huge amount of faults in my writing. I already corrected all that I could find. I hope you will like this chapter. Read and review.
Chapter 2: First Impressions
King's Cross, Sept. 1st 1991
"Really, there's nothing to fear, Mum, we'll be fine" Harry said for what felt like hundreth time.
"My boys have grown up," Lily said with a teasing smile on her face.
"Come on Lils, they'll miss train, if we wait any longer," James said.
"Okay, okay, it's just not everyday that my two boys start Hogwarts and don't forget that you said we should arrive late to avoid being mobbed," Lily reminded him.
"They won't go to Hogwarts if they don't catch train and most kids are probably already on train."
"Fine let's go boys, you remember how to get to platform, right?" asked Lily.
"Just run into that wall mum, it's nothing really," said Harry while thinking about what Muggles might think if some heard such a sentence.
"Yeah, let's go before Harry goes crazy at thouth of not seeing Hogwarts library," Will said with grin.
"It's funny you laught now, because I bet you won't be able to stop single one of my jinxes," Harry said with a well placed smirk.
"I'm sorry that I know meaning of word fun, while you just practice wand movements and read books," Will shot back.
"Oh really? Well I'm sorry that I forgot that your ability to lose to Dad at Quidditch means you know fun and I don't," Harry said sarcastically.
"Enought," Lily said with ire she couldn't hold for any longer, "now, let's move onto the platform boys."
Harry quicly grabbed his trunk and ran throuth the barrier and a moment later he was joined by other members of his family.
"I just don't understand how none of the Muggles never notices a thing," Will commented.
Rolling his eyes Harry said "It's called Notice-Me-Not Charm for a reason, genius."
"Okay, that's enough," James snapped at them as Will was about to reply, "you're brothers, so I expect you to cover your backs while at Hogwarts."
"And I don't want to hear about any problems, is that clear?" Lily quickly added.
"You sound like you trust us nothing Mum, I'm hurt," Will said with a faked hurt look.
"Okay, I think we should go now," said Harry without adressing his brother's comment.
"Good, now both of you have a good term and we'll see you both for Christmas," James said as he hugged his sons," Okay, and if you forget to write... well I'll let Mum deal with it."
With a gulp of fear and a few more goodbyes, they finally went for train.
"That took forever," Harry said as he was trying to drag his trunk on train.
"Yeah, you would think that they would never see us again or something, "Will said as he too struggled with his trunk, "let's find a compartment that is close by, I don't want to lug this trunk along the whole train."
"I know what you mea... wait, what's wrong with us," Harry said after trying every possible approach with a trunk.
"What? I don't understand," Will said confused.
"Feather-Light Charm, it's in seventh chapter of our charms book," Harry said before he took his wand from the pocket of his robes and tapping both of their trunks while murmering some incatation.
"Is there anything you don't know already? Why are you even going to Hogwarts?" Will asked while lifting his trunk from ground.
"You should thank me, prat," Harry replied with smile as they continued in their search of empty compartment.
"Oi, look Fred firsties!"
As they turned around they noticed two redheads standing behind them with a big grin plastered on their faces. Thankfully, Will's hair were covering his scar.
"They seem to get smaller every year," one on the left said.
"That they do brother of mine, anyway, need any help finding compartments?" the other one said.
"We could only hardly not notice where compartments are, but thanks anyway," Harry said.
"Oh, so that's the smart one George, our brother could use some smarting up," said the one on the left.
"That's capital idea, let's intoduce him to Ron," replied George before grabbing Harry's trunk. The redhead seemed a bit surprised with the weight of the trunk, but just shrugged it away while dragging Harry down the hallway. After a brief walk he opened the compartment and guided him inside. A moment later Fred appeared tugging Will along with him into compartment, where Harry noticed, another redhaired boy sat.
"Ronald, we brought you some company."
"Yes, now you don't have to sit all by your lonesome."
"Now, play nice boys and don't make us come back here for any trouble making."
"Gits," Ron yelled as they left compartment and closed doors behind them, "oh, I'm sorry about them, Fred and George can be a real pain."
"Yeah, don't worry about it, I know how brothers can sometimes be," Will smirked.
"Funny, coming from you," Harry replied with same smirk as he levitated his trunk next to his brother's.
"Wow," Ron replied with awe as he saw it, "are you a second year?"
"No, we're both first years, " Will commented before his brother could answer, "it's just that Harry has nothing better than to study."
Ron's eyes widened, "Your parents let you learn magic already, you're so lucky. By the way I'm Ron. Ron Weasley."
Harry and Will shared a look that clearly meant that it had to come out sooner or later, "Harry Potter, and did you know you have a smudge on your nose?"
Ron blushed and tried to rub his nose a little before the words hit him, "Wait, did you just said Potter?"
"Yes, hi, I'm Will Potter," said Will hesitantly before brushing hair out of his forehead, revealing the lightning bolt scar.
"Wow," was the only word Ron seemed cabable of saying, while staring on Will's scar shamelessly.
Harry couldn't help but roll his eyes at Ron. If this was how all of the Hogwarts were going to respond to his brother... well it would be long year.
"So, Ron," Will said awkwardly, "do you play Quidditch at all?"
That seemed to snap Ron from his daze and he begun to talk about Quidditch and his favourite, Chudley Cannons.
He couldn't help but shake his head as they begun arguing about how good were their favourite teams. Ron standing for his Chudley Cannons and Will defending Porttree. He could tell that this coversation would take a while so he levitated his trunk down, took out his book on transfiguration and started to read last few chapters. He ignored any attempts that Will and Ron could think about to get him to join their conversation.
As slowly countryside could be seen from their window, there was a knock on doors and bushy-haired girl entered while dragging another boy alongside her. "Have you seen a toad on the train, because Neville lost his," she explained while boy looked utterly terrified.
Will looked up from his conversation with Ron and replied, "No, sorry, I haven't seen one."
The girl seemed obvious to the Will's reply before her eyes locked on Harry as he was waving his wand in circle motion.
"Oooh, are you doing magic?" she asked as she sat opposite him.
Harry looked at the rude girl that interupted his concetration. Then an idea popped into his head. He aimed his wand at Ron, waved it in the circular motion and then jabbing it at him while saying „Colovaria Orange" . The spell left his wand and struck Ron turning him same orange as his hair. "Now you look like a true Cannons supporter should look like."
Ron looked terrified at seeing his skin orange and took out his wand, "Turn me back!" he demanded.
"Fine, fine," Harry muttered before saying "Finite".
Ron turned back and looked ready to explode.
Before Ron could launch into tirade, the girl spoke up, "I've never seen that spell before, I tried some spells at home but I couldn't cast them all, I'm Hermione. Hermione Granger."
"Harry Potter."
"Are you really? Any relation to Will Potter, The Boy-Who-Lived?"
He just jabbed his thumb at his brother and said, "That would be the great savior."
Will just scowled at him, but then he turned to the others and said hello to Hermione and completely stunned Neville.
As he was expecting, the usual banter came "Do you know you're in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of Dark Arts?"
And as it seemed to take a while, he just turned them out and returned to reading his transfiguration book. Honestly, he could remember from reading both books their lacking of information and not even mention that famous boy had a brother.
Neville and Hermione left shortly after a little conversation on Hogwarts Houses. He was about to say his opinion when Will proclaimed him to be Ravenclaw for sure. After that he glowered at his twin but made a decision not to comment it.
As the train ride continued, the door once again opened and there was standing a blond boy. Another interruption, just what he needed, he though sarcastically. With a jab of his wand, Harry send stream of silver sparks into the hallway meant to frighten the boy, who went sprawling onto the train hallway just as Harry closed door with a said incatation. The boy seemed surprised but that quickly turned to anger as he turned around and stomped off. This surely wasn't last time they would meet him but at least it gave him some peaceful time with his book.
"Well, that just shows that no one interrupts Harry while reading without getting a beating he deserves for it, right Harry?" Will said with a big grin on his face.
Harry just looked up from his book and gave Will a look that clearly meant that he should shut up or he will end simiralry to the blond boy. There really was nothing that could stand between his brother and learning magic.
Hogwarts, Great Hall
"Wow," Harry said as he marveled at flying candles, charms on ceiling, countless suits of armor and ghosts that were floating all around them, it was all beyond what he imagined Hogwarts would be. Of course his parents and uncles told him countless strories about Hogwarts and he read about it all in Hogwarts: A History, but seeing it all was just amazing.
The sorting Hat's song was interesting to behold and he briefly wondered if it sang new song every year. If yes, then how many songs could it think of and could he run out of songs? And if no, well... it was still amazing piece of magic. He caught a sight of his pseudo-grandfather, Dumledore was a good friend to his parents and sometimes stopped and asked how things were going. He could swore that Dumledore winked at him but that trail of thoughts stopped once Professor McGonagall called out first name to be sorted.
Harry recognized several names that his parents mentioned. Abotts, Bones and Davies were among most notable that Harry remembered. After a while of waiting, his name was called by McGonagall, "Potter, Harry."
Harry took a bold step forward, knowing that the wisphers around the hall were probably about him and his brother. The last thing he heard before setting The Hat on his head were words of some particurarly shameless Hufflepuff, "I didn't know that Potters had two children."
"Hmmm, just what do we have here?" disembodied voice asked.
"Hello?" Harry asked tentatively "Hat?"
"Quite the mind you have Mr. Potter, there's great thirst to prove yourself. You fear that world will see you just as The Boy-Who-Lived brother. You want to prove that you can be better than your brother..."
"I don't want to be better than Wi..." Harry tried to defend himself.
"Please, don't try to lie to me," Hat interrupted, " besides, there's nothing bad in seeking greatness, and you seek greatness. I've sorted many children but only a handful ever set for themself such hight standard you seem to set for yourself. Now which House would serve you best?"
"Gryffindor?" Harry asked.
"Is that what you really want Mr. Potter, Gryffindor?" Hat asked back.
Harry paused, it was always Will's desire to go in their father's footsteps and be Gryffindor, did he really want to be there?
"Your silence answers my question. Now, while you already started to study, to try and prove that you're better than your brother, you developed a great love for studying magic in all it's forms and it's clear that your greatest desire is to learn everything you possibly can. It is clear that you belong in...RAVENCLAW!"
The hat was immediately lifted from his head as the table furthest to the left exploded in cheers. Harry set off for a Ravenclaw table as McGonagall called out, "Potter, Willam."
As everyone in Ravenclaw congratulated him, he did his best to watch as Hat was put on Will's head. Judging by the way Will was grabbing the stool he sat on, it was clear he had a very tense discussion with The Hat. After almost minute of waiting, Hat opened it's brim and said, "Gryffindor!"
Harry couldn't help but clap with the rest of the Great Hall as Will set off towards the Gryffindor table. He knew that it was his brother's dream to end up in Gryffindor, just like their father had.
He noticed that the blond boy he met on train and didn't really talked to, was named Draco Malfoy and was sorted into Slytherin. He remembered that his father was Lucius Malfoy, who was very wealthy and powerful blood purist who managed to avoid Azkaban by claiming that he was under Imperius.
Well, he made himself very troublesome enemy by what he did at train, but he always learned from his mistakes and next time someone rudely interrupts him, he will at least give them chance to say their names.
He was surprised to learn that he and his brother weren't the only twins in their year. After Blaise Zabini was placed into Slytherin, Sorting ended. Harry smiled, he was finally at Hogwarts with his brother and he could finally start learning magic in all it's beauty. This year was really going to be great.