Eveningspell
Summary: Devena is starting her first year at Hogwarts, joining Albus, Rose and Scorpius as they explore Hogwarts. What adventures will they endure? And whose trying to get to Devena?
Chapter 1: End of Summer
I laid in my bed for an hour just reading my books when I heard my cousin creeping down stairs.
"I wouldn't want to do that, Gary." He paused at the head of the stairs and padded his way to my room and yanked the door open.
"Reading, again?" I tried to hide it under my pillow but he was quicker.
"Accio book!" The book zoomed out from under my pillow and right into his hand. He gave me the trouble look.
"You know you aren't supposed to read these." He wagged the charm book in front of my face.
"I was curious…"I said innocently. I couldn't help that this was going to be my first year at Hogwarts. I was reading all about in Hogwarts: A History.
"I'll be simply shock if you don't make it into Ravenclaw, with all these books you keep reading." My other cousin, Mercy, stood next to her brother and retrieved the book in his hand.
"Aunt Harmony is waiting down stairs for us, come." My cousins lit the dark with their white blonde and I quickly followed them down the stairs. Both would be going to be returning to Hogwarts this year; Garron was in his fourth year and Mercy in her third. They were in Gryffindor, the same house as their mother and the famous Harry Potter. They were bold and daring and I, on the other hand, was a shrinking violet. I looked almost similar in looks; I was strawberry blonde and perfectly pretty. They had the blue eyes from their father and I had the green eyes of my mother. I was slightly pale and they were sun-kissed from Quidditch practices. Garron was the keeper and Mercy a chaser. Okay, maybe we weren't that similar…
We meet my cousins at the bottom of the stairs, the ones with the caramel hair like that of their father. Honour was a second year in Hufflepuff and her younger brother was going to be a first year, like me. We all headed to the kitchen table that was full of eggs and bacon; sausage and toast; muffins and pancakes. I took my seat and piling my pancakes on my plate and waiting for the others to talk.
"My mother wants us to visit her before the children go back to Hogwarts. She'll have Noelle with her." My aunt said. My uncle Lucky stop his fork in mid-bite.
"Yur mohr iz comn?" He said around his food, forgetting to swallow. My younger cousin, Gwendolyn, giggled.
"Yes, dear. Will this be a problem?" All of us kids looked toward Uncle Luck and looking for his reaction. He smiled pleasantly.
"Not at all, Honey." He said through clench teeth.
"Liar." Muttered Gary. Aunt Harmony was about to scold him when I owl pecked on the window behind her.
"Letters are here!" Little Gwen with her blonde head of hair jumped from her seat and raced to the window to get the letters. She was able to get the letters without tearing it but created creases in them. She handed them over to the ones with there names on them and handed me mine. I tore mine open and looked at the letter.
Dear Miss Eveningwell,
We kindly invited you to learn the use of proper magic here at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. We hope to see you at the start of term on the first of September and has disclosed a list of books for the year.
Minerva McGonagall
Hogwarts Headmistress
I retrieve the list from the envelope and looked down on it. It listed the books I needed:
The Standard Book of Spells, year 1 by Miranda Goshawk
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
I handed over the list to Aunt Harmony and she received all of our list in turn.
"Well, I think we'll go into Diagon Alley next week and pick up all your supplies and Devena," she said. " We'll pick up a pet for you when were there. Maybe a nice cat." Uncle Luckas was about to say something but Aunt Harmony shot him a look and it disappeared into the air. I shoveled my food down and went out the door with the others to get the brooms. I took a Nimbus 2000 from the shed and hitch my leg over it to get it to fly up. We're going to play Quidditch, and lucky for us that we were surrounded by trees to the Muggles couldn't see us. We spilt into threes and appointed Keepers, Chasers, and Seekers. I was on Mercy and Raleigh's team as the seeker. Garron, Honour and Gwen were teamed together and hovered over the miniature rings we had charmed to act as goals.
"Ready to go, Vennie?" Mercy asked.
"Yes. And Don't call me Vennie!" I shouted this after her but I think she just ignored me and zoomed to take the fake Quaffle from Honour as she flew our way to score a goal. I ducked quickly and looked for the fake snitch. The other team's seeker was Gwen since she was the smallest, and it looked as if she caught sight of the snitch. I trailed after her and looked for the snitch that she was chasing. The walnut that was acting as our snitch was buzzing in front of Gwen's outstretched hand, only inches away. I shot up to be neck and neck to her and dove for the snitch. I missed it; it flew up at the last moment and we both almost fell off our brooms. We managed to right ourselves and start looking the snitch again. By then my team had scored twenty points but the other was ahead at seventy-five. I need to get the snitch to win. I looked and listen hard for the it while watching the teams score more points. We were at forty and the other team was at one-thirty and I hadn't spotted the snitch since before. I pulled a strand of my hair behind my ear and grip something in my hand that got tangled with it. I pulled it up front of my eyes and saw that it was the charmed walnut that was acting as our snitch.
"I got it! I got it!" I shout at the top of my lungs and everyone turned to my direction. Raleigh and Mercy cheered victoriously while Honour and Gary cursed under their breath. The score was two hundred and ten to one-forty five and we lucked out and won.
We played a few more games before calling it quits. I got the snitch every game but we lost half of them.
"You should try out for the seeker position in your house." Raleigh told me as we made our way into the house as the sun started to set.
"There are probably better seekers than me." I told him. I didn't think our few wins were entirely based upon my skills. I was more of a book person.
"Fine, but I'm making you go to trials if you get sorted to Hufflepuff." Honour said. Gary chimed in, "Gryffindor, too." I ignored their comments and went upstairs to return to my copy of Hogwarts, A History. I wanted to finish it before we had to get up tomorrow to get a Portkey to return to England. My summer break in New York was almost over.
We woke up at about noon the next day and took an umbrella given by us from the Government of Magic to return home. Mercy and Garron made sure to say goodbye to their American friends before we left and Raleigh left some the American Muggles a dung bomb. He was scolded horribly for it.
"It's not my fault those Muggles can't defend themselves!" Was his defense. We returned to Ashegale Manor with a pile of letters left the window. Many were from someone named "James S. Potter"
"He won't leave me alone, will he!" Mercy tossed the letters into the fireplace and looked for anymore than those. Honour took her stack of letters and started writing letters to her friends. Raleigh and Garron took to opening their purchases from Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. I went and unwrapped the book I had purchased from Flourish and Blotts, An Appraisal of Magical Education in Europe. I wanted to know more about my cousin Noelle's school. My grandmother wanted to have my aunt and mother attend Beauxbatons when they attended school.
"Stop the reading for one day, will you?" I ignored Gary's jab and headed for my room to finish my reading. I opened the door to smell the homey scent of apple spices, leather binds and paper. I made my way through the stacks of books on my floor and scoot over the books that I had read earlier in the year that was placed on my bed. I put my new one on my pillow and started. I was already at page twenty when Gwen came into my room.
"Honour wants Mercy's old charms book." Gwen told me.
"The third book from the top from the stack on your left near the closet." I told her without bothering to look up from my reading. She went toward the stack where it was and pulled free the charm book.
"That is scary." Gwen said. She made her way to my bed. "You need at least three bookshelves to fit all these books on."
"Just wait until I actually start at Hogwarts." I told her, giving an involuntary shudder. I would be shocked to.
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