Authors Note: Sorry, sorry, sorryyy this chapter took so long, I've been experiencing writers block. I've already finished work on Chapter 3 for you. This chapter isn't one of my favourites, but it's not too bad. Oh, and sorry again for the length, if it's way too long when I publish it, I'll split it into two chapters. Anyway, enjoy!


After finishing breakfast, and an hour of watching Muggle cartoons, James sent Charlie off to his room to finish last minute packing. Violet deemed this idea a good one and decided to go and check that she herself hadn't forgotten anything. As she was walking into her room, she nearly tripped over Hyde, who was skulking near the door, as he had been unable to find the family of mice to terrorise. Violet unceremoniously picked him up and shoved him in is basket, where he couldn't trip up unwary owners. When Hyde looked most displeased at this, Violet said, "Oh, stop your moping, cat. If you want to freak something out, go and stare at a dog," which Hyde took to be a most welcome offer, trotting out of the room, tail high in the air and an evil cat-ish smirk on his face. "Really," she snorted, rolling her eyes. "I have the weirdest cat on the planet."

"I second that," said James, walking into her room. "Are you almost done? Because we have to leave in around ten minutes."

"Ten minutes?" asked Violet curiously. "Why?"

"Because," said James smoothly, "I am going to test out my new Muggle car license."

"You're what? Since when do you have a Muggle car license?"

"Since last week."

"Right, so you're driving us to Platform 9 3/4?"

"That is correct, daughter."

"Right then. I just need to figure out how to pack my guitar, and I'm done."

"Why don't you just sling it around your shoulder?"

"I was thinking of that."

"Well then, with that settled, you better go get your cat."

"He's not going to be happy with me. I just sent him out to freak out next-doors dog."

"Well, he's a cat, he'll deal with it."

Her father obviously didn't understand the extent of Hyde's wrath. Violet was sure he'd get her back- depriving him of scaring stuff was the ultimate offence. But she went and fetched him anyway, and her assumptions were right. Hyde was absolutely disgusted that she pull him away from such a wonderful experience. He protested in the way of hissing and glaring at her, before giving next-doors dog an evil parting grin.


The car ride to Kings Cross was not enjoyable. After assuring her father that she had complete faith in him, he pulled out of the drive with gusto, almost crashing into an incoming garbage truck. For the rest of the trip, Charlie rocked back and forth next to Violet in the back seat, eyes wide, muttering under his breath, 'We're all going to die, we're going to die,' which did not improve their father's confidence, which was only hanging on by a strand because of his wife's calm trust in him.

When they did finally get to Kings Cross, Violet and her mother unloaded everyone's gear onto trolleys, while James and Charlie leant against the car, trying to regain their composure. When the colour of Charlie's face turned to a normal skin tone, they set off for Platforms 9 and 10. They quickly pushed the trolleys along, and Violet checked her watch. It was 10:50. "We're going to be late," she mouthed to her mother, who responded by picking up pace as they neared the platform.

"Quick, through the barrier, while no Muggles are looking," said Stella to her children, giving them both an encouraging shove.

"Right you are mum," said Charlie promptly, running through. Violet strolled after him, casually leaning on the barrier, causing her to fall through to Platform 9 3/4. She quickly stepped back to allow her parents room to come through, before turning around to see the gleaming scarlet Hogwarts Express. She smiled and pushed her trolley over to the train and unloaded her things into an empty compartment. Just as she was about to rejoin her parents, Violet heard a high pitched squeal, and footsteps coming in her direction. She turned around just in time to see Alice running at her before she was nearly bowled over.

"Um, nice to see you too?" laughed Violet, examining her friend. Alice had grown at least five inches taller over the summer, making her half a head taller than Violet, who was tall herself. Her blonde hair had also lengthened, and Alice's penetrating sea blue eyes were brimming with excitement.

"Vi! I haven't seen you in AGES!"

"Alice, it's been, what, three months? And I wrote to you, didn't I?"

"Yes, but it's not the same as seeing you in person!"

"Honestly Allie, you'd think we wouldn't have seen each other in a decade," said Violet, rolling her eyes.

"I know, but I just cant believe that we're going back for our fifth year!" exclaimed Alice, waving her hands erratically.

"Alice, by any chance did you have any form of sugar this morning?" asked Violet with mock seriousness.

"Nutella on toast and a cup of tea, why do you ask?"

"No reason. Where's Elijah?" she said, quickly changing the subject to the location of Alice's twin.

"Last I saw him he was putting our stuff on the train," shrugged Alice. She indicated in the direction of two people, both dressed in Muggle attire, looking slightly uncomfortable. "I better go say goodbye to my parents, see you in a bit."

"I'd better do that too, see you," said Violet. Alice turned and walked away, and Violet headed back to her parents. Charlie was already there, giving his mother a final hug.

"I'm going to miss you two," said Stella, letting Charlie go and reeling Violet in. "Have fun this year."

"Will do, mum," said Violet, hugging her mother back.

"Yeah, and remember not to get into too much trouble," added James.

Violet laughed. "Sure, I can vouch for myself, not so confident about that one, though," she said when her mother released her, pointing to Charlie.

"What? It's not like I get caught that much," Charlie commented.

The Hogwarts Express let off a warning whistle, and James gave his children a quick bear hug before shooing them towards the train. "Now go, or you'll miss it! Bye!"

"Bye dad!" yelled Charlie and Violet together over the noise that had picked up. "Bye mum!"

Violet waved goodbye and jumped on the train. Grabbing her luggage, she took a final look at her parents and the platform before setting off in search of a compartment. She'd been dragging her trunk, guitar and Hyde's basket for a couple of minutes before she crashed into Elijah. Alice's twin brother was almost the exact replica of her friend, but in male form. He had blonde hair, which he normally had spiked up, smooth sea green eyes and was very tall.

"Hey, watch it- oh, hi Vi," said Elijah, grinning at her.

"Hey Elijah, where is everyone?"

"Well, Alice, Isaac, Ella and I are all in a compartment, but I've no idea where the others are."

"OK, cool. Is this the infamous Isaac I've heard so much about?" inquired Violet.

"Correct-a-mundo. It's his first year. You should have heard him going on about the features of the school, and all the hidden passageways that he's found out about. Half of them are the one's we've found out via you, courtesy of Charlie's wonderful map."

"You're welcome. Which compartment are they in?"

"That one over there." Elijah jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at a compartment to his left. "Anything else?"

"Yeah, one more thing, where are you going?"

Elijah grinned slyly. "Prefects cabin. I've been made one."

"No joke? Who in their right mind would appoint you as a prefect?"

"From what I've heard, Professor Mason. You know how she simply adores me, so apparently she put in a good word or two to Headmistress McGonagall," he replied innocently.

"Or fifty. Like you'll do any of your duties," Violet scoffed.

"Who says I have to? The girl prefect for Ravenclaw this year is Leila Forner. She'd be so happy to take on extra work, she goes through all her own stuff so fast. And it's not like I wont do my duties, I will, at least, some of them." Elijah fluttered his eyelids at her dramatically. "Now, if you don't mind, I must be getting on. See you later!"

Violet laughed as he gave her a final grin and walked off. She dragged her trunk the last few steps over to the compartment Elijah had directed her to and slid open the door. "Hi people," she said, swinging her trunk up into the luggage rack, placing her guitar cautiously on top of it.

"Hey Violet," said Ella, looking up from her book. She was a picture of her father, Andrew Indovinello, though features from her mother Kellyn did show. She had dark auburn hair and green eyes, was tanned and fairly tall. "Did you hear what they're doing with Quidditch this year? Apparently there is going to be tryouts for a school team."

"A school team?" said Violet curiously, sitting down. "What for?"

Ella shrugged, marked her page and shut her book. "I don't know," she said. "Mum and Dad wouldn't tell me. I found out when we went to Italy, the school there has a team, and Dad mentioned that we might have to play against them."

"That could be interesting. Are they still having the Quidditch cup as well?"

"I think so. They'll probably tell us at the feast tonight."

"Excellent." Violet turned her head to look around at the other two people in the compartment; Alice and her little brother Isaac. Isaac was almost a mini-Elijah, except with chocolate brown hair. Violet held out a hand. "Hi, I'm Violet, you must be Isaac."

"That's me," said Isaac, taking her hand and shaking it lightly. "Are you on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team with Allie?"

"Yep, I'm Chaser. Do you play?" Violet asked.

"Allie's been teaching me how to play Beater, but I want to play Keeper too," answered Isaac enthusiastically. "I don't have my own broom, but I can borrow Allie's Nimbus."

Violet smiled slightly, not wanting to tell him that first years barely ever made their House Quidditch teams. "We can help you learn how to be Keeper, there's an opening this year."

"Seriously?" Isaac's eyes lit up. Violet couldn't tell if she'd seen as much enthusiasm in a kid as she was seeing in Isaac now.

Violet nodded. "Mmhmm."

"Awesome!"

Violet turned to Alice. "I like him. He's cool," she said, pointing to Isaac.

Alice raised an eyebrow. "Him? Cool? You must have something wrong with you, Vi. Like, seriously wrong."

Violet crossed her arms. "I do not," she said childishly, poking her tongue out.

Alice smirked. "Of course not."


After a while, they arrived at the castle. After wishing Isaac luck with his journey across the lake, Alice, Ella, Violet and Elijah all went up in a carriage together. Their carriage was one of the last, and they arrived just before the sorting. They quickly sat down at the Ravenclaw table, and a second later, Hagrid walked in, leading the first years through to the front of the hall. As he passed them, Isaac waved nervously. Elijah laughed.

"He looks like a right midget, standing in with all the others," he whispered to Violet.

"Shhh, remember the days when I was taller than you were?" she whispered back.

"Yes, I remember those days well, I was midgety then, wasn't I?" he whispered gravely.

"Indeed you were. So don't pick on your brother," she whispered, eyeing him sternly.

"I have rights as an older brother to pick on him."

"Really?"

"Yes. Yes I do. Anyway, you pick on Charlie more."

"No, I don't."

"Yeah, you do."

They went on like this all the way until the M's, when they broke off to watch Isaac walk up to the stool the sorting hat sat on, wringing his hands. When he'd climbed up, Hagrid placed the sorting hat on his head. He sat on the stool for about ten seconds, looking nervous. Then, suddenly, the sorting hat's brim opened, and it roared, "RAVENCLAW!"

Isaac jumped off the stool, smiling in relief. He zoomed over to the Ravenclaw table, and sat down next to another first year. Satisfied, Elijah and Violet went back to arguing through the sorting. They didn't notice when Professor McGonagall stood up, and everyone was silent. McGonagall stood there, looking down at them. Ella nudged Violet. She looked up at Ella, who nodded in the headmistresses direction. Violet then elbowed Elijah.

"Oh, right. Sorry Professor!" Elijah grinned apologetically, ruffling the back of his hair in embarrassment.

"Mmm, sorry!" Violet mirrored Elijah's embarrassed grin.

Elijah waved his hands around, "Feel free to carry on!"

Professor McGonagall refrained from laughing at their expressions, and started to speak. "Good evening. Welcome back to Hogwarts, all of you. To our first years, I hope that you enjoy your time here. Before say anything else, I would like to welcome Professor Daisy Martin to our staff. Professor Martin will be taking over the Transfiguration position this year." The headmistress paused for a minute while a sour looking woman stood up and waved a hand at the non-existent applause, then sat down, and glared around at the students. There was an awkward silence, and Violet looked properly at their new teacher, who, at that moment, looked straight at her and glared intensely with a hatred that surprised Violet. What had she done to deserve a look like that? But then Professor McGonagall cleared her throat and continued, giving them the start of term notices, cutting off time for Violets brain to form a conspiracy theory. "As usual, Mr Filch has an extensive list of banned items pinned to the door of his office. Also, as per usual, students are reminded that the forest on the edge of the grounds is out of bounds unless accompanied by a teacher. This year, Hogwarts will be participating in an inter-school Quidditch competition-"

"Awesome! What schools are going to be participating, Professor?" yelled a Gryffindor. Professor McGonagall rolled her eyes and continued.

"Schools from all over the world will be participating. To name a few, Beauxbatons, from France, Durmstrang, from Bulgaria, and Maialescoregge, from Italy."

"Aha, Maialescoregge," snorted Ella quietly. Violet looked at her oddly- she failed to see anything funny about the name Maialescoregge- and went back to listening to their headmistress.

"Madam Hooch will be selecting the school team in the coming month, and you must be a part of your house team to try out. So, house Quidditch captains, arrange your team tryouts sometime in the next two weeks, please. More information will be posted around the school, once the Hogwarts team is selected. Onto the final announcement. We will be having a Spring Ball this year. The date isn't set yet, though we are planning it around April or May. That concludes our major announcements for this evening, so I will let you tuck in!" At 'tuck in', the golden plates filled with marvellous food, prepared by the House Elves in the kitchens. Violet grabbed a few chicken legs and placed them on her plate, before pouring apple juice into her goblet. She grinned- Violet loved the food at Hogwarts.


After McGonagall dismissed them all off to bed, Violet and Ella walked straight out of the hall, determined to unpack and get some sleep. The others had a different plan.

Elijah quickly walked up behind them and put his hands on both their shoulders. "Viooleeet, Ellaaaaaaa," he said, fake suave heavily tinting his voice.

"Knock it off Elijah, you know we don't believe you when you use that voice."

Elijah pouted. "But we were going to have a party in one of the dorms!" he whined.

Violet spun on the spot to face him. "A party? In the dorms?"

"One of the dorms, Vi, singular," corrected Elijah.

"Elijah, you are a prefect," breathed Ella, but she was unheard by both Elijah and Violet, who continued their conversation as if she hadn't spoken.

"Shut up. Anyway, will there be butterbeer at this party?"

"Mmhmm, I was going to sneak down and get some from the kitchens, actually," he said disinterestedly, pretending to check his nails. Ella decided it was time to intervene properly.

"Uh-uh, Elijah, we're not interested. Vi and I are going to unpack and get some sleep," Ella said, brushing his hand off Violet's shoulder and then the other off her own.

"Aww, but, Ellaaaa!" complained Violet. "I haven't had butterbeer in ages!"

"No, Vi," said Ella sternly. She looked worried when Elijah's face lit up. "What are you planning, 'Lijah?"

"Nothing!" sang Elijah, grinning. "See you guys later!" And he pranced off back into the Great Hall. Ella shook her head.

"Boys," she muttered, and steered Violet away in the direction of Ravenclaw Tower.


Violet was finished unpacking. She lay face down on her bed, thinking about the wonderful taste of butterbeer. "Ella?"

"Mmm?"

"I'm bored. Can we go to the party now?"

"No."

"Awwwwww..."


She must have dozed off, because when Ella woke her up, it was completely dark outside, and none of their roommates had come back to the dorm.

"Vi. Get up."

"What time is it, Ella?"

"I don't know, around nine, nine thirty-ish."

"Why do I have to get up? I'm comfortable here."

"We're going to the party-"

"YAY!"

"-To get Mona, Alyse and Alice."

"Naaaw, Ellaaaaaa..."

"No, Vi. You can have one butterbeer. One. You can drink it when we get back here."

"Fine." While Violet pouted, Ella dragged her out of their dorm, down the stairs, up the boys stairs, and into one of the fifth year boys dorms. There weren't many people there, mostly Ravenclaws and people from their group. A blast of music greeted them, coming from an enlarged speaker.

"Violet! You're here!" yelled Elijah, appearing out of nowhere. Violet's face lit up.

"Is there butterbeer?" she asked, looking over his shoulder.

Elijah grinned and rolled his eyes. "Yes, over there-" he broke off and pointed to a table laden with Violet's favourite drink- "Buuut, I'll get it for you. Wouldn't want someone to take too many, would we now?"

"You're really mean, you know that?" said Violet, crossing her arms and pouting.

"Why, yes. Yes I do," said Elijah, walking over to the butterbeer table and leaving the girls alone.

"OK, Violet, stay here. I'm going to find Alyse first, can you see her?" asked Ella, peering around the room. Violet wrinkled her nose a little. She didn't really like Alyse all that much. And the feeling was mutual with Alyse. But they were growing to like each other. Kind of. Still, Violet looked around the room for Ella; and she spotted the dark haired girl dancing with a bottle of butterbeer in her hand.

"Over there," said Violet to Ella, pointing in Alyse's direction.

"Thanks," and Ella shot off. Violet saw her speak to Alyse, who pointed in another direction and headed over to Violet.

"Hello," said Alyse, looking Violet up and down. Violet raised her eyebrow again, and said nothing. Alyse looked in the opposite direction and crossed her arms. "Okay then."

"Hey, Vi, here's your butterbeer." Elijah had returned. He looked over at who was standing next to Violet. "Um, hi, Alyse."

Alyse and Violet spoke at the same time.

"Thank you."

"Hi Elijah."

Violet glared at Alyse, who glared back. Violet took her drink from Elijah. She opened her butterbeer and took a sip. She smirked at Alyse and spun on her heel to go and find Ella. She'd disappeared into a group of Gryffindor girls- Violet assumed she would find her in the middle of them, so she walked over, taking small sips of butterbeer as she went.

One of the girls turned around as she approached; Jasmine Huntington. Jasmine had dark brown hair similar to Violets, though it was to her waist when Violet had hers shoulder length. Jasmine's eyes were a nice hazel brown, compared to Violet's changing blues and greens. "Hey Violet!" she greeted with a hug.

"Jas, hey," replied Violet. "Have you seen Ella?"

Jasmine jabbed her thumb over her shoulder. "She's trying to get Mona and Alice to go back to the dorm. It's not working so far," she grinned.

Violet laughed. "I'll go help her then, shall I?"

"I think you'd better," said Jasmine, moving aside to let Violet through.

Violet squeezed through the group of girls to find herself in front of a very annoyed Ella, who was trying- note, trying, not succeeding- to get their other two roommates, Alice and Desmona, to come back to the room.

"-But it's fun here!" Alice was complaining to Ella. The latter crossed her arms and her eyes narrowed dangerously.

"Alice, if you don't come back to the dorm, I will personally make sure you don't make it onto the Quidditch team this year."

Alice gasped. "You wouldn't!"

"I would," said Ella, smirking. Mona then cut in.

"Ella, you cant do that! It's sabotage! To your own House team!" she tried to emphasise her point by waving her arms around in front of Ella's face, but Ella looked unworried. This worried Violet.

"Ellena Kellyn Olivia Indovinello, you are not allowed to sabotage your own team," Violet tried to back Mona up, using Ella's full name(a very long full name, she added to herself) to convince Ella into reconsidering. Ella was having none of it. She raised an eyebrow and eyed Violet's open butterbeer.

"Violet. Indiania. Potter," Ella said disapprovingly, jabbing a finger at the butterbeer. "What did I say?"

"Uhhhh..." Violet grinned weakly and then quickly mumbled, "That I could drink it back at the dorm?"

Ella nodded her head slowly. Then, she suddenly grabbed both the arms of Alice and Mona and started to drag them, protesting, back over to the centre of the room where Alyse was waiting. Elijah seemed to have disappeared, and Ella, satisfied that the organiser of this stupid party was nowhere in sight, sped up and reached Alyse quickly. Alyse raised a quizzical eyebrow at the sight of the two struggling girls in Ella's grip. Ella shot Alyse a look that said, 'I'll explain later'.

"C'mon, we're going back to our dorm. No arguments."


An hour later, Violet was on a sugar rush from the butterbeer. She wasn't sure how exactly, considering that butterbeer didn't have that much sugar in it, but hey, she was hyper. Hyper and jumping around the room using everyone's beds. The other girls were sitting in a circle in the middle of the room, watching Violet with amusement. She'd crash in a heap on one of their beds eventually, it was just a matter of time. A very long time.

By the time Violet did crash, it was already 11 PM. And they had classes in the morning. None of the girls in the dorm doubted that Violet would wake up late the next morning. Unfortunately, they turned out to be very, very right.


Authors Note: Like I said last chapter, this fic was inspired by/is based on The Reign of Kellyn Wood by Off Dreaming. Most of my character's parents will come from there, and I've paired as I may. Just to let you know. (:

Thank you to Jas(xXSongBirdXx) for beta-ing this chapter for me! You rock! :D

Oh, and, as soon as I get a review for this chapter, I'll put up the next one. So review, chop chop!