Disclaimer Short Story (I don't own any of the names used. They are the names of my friends mixed together.):
"Hello Everyone. My name is Henry McNamara. And next to me is…"
"Kimiko Sirokman. And we are your host. Today we will be releasing the third chapter of the American Harry Potter. But to make this disclaimer more interesting, Henry will be involved in a stunt. Ready Henry?"
"What is the stunt again?"
"Just put the damn harness on Henry. Then jump into the hole and scream we don't own Harry Potter. Ok?"
"Got it." Henry then put the harness on and jumped in while yelling "WE DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER. NOW REEL ME BACK UP."
"Oh? I guess I should have attached the other end. Whoops. Henry your sacrifice will not be in vain," yelled Kimiko down the hole.
" #$% you Kimiko. I'll haunt you for the rest of your life! AHHHH!"
"Well folks that is the show. Now you all know that Airwatcher doesn't own Harry Potter, although he wouldn't mind. Now without further adieu, let the third chapter of American Harry Potter: Letters from the schools commence! Oh and if we could have a moment of silence for Henry that would be nice, but it is entirely optional."
Story Begins:
|Potter Mansion: July 31st 1981|
Harry Potter was sleeping peacefully in his bed without a care in his world when he was awoken by the yell, "THEY'RE HERE. OUR HOGWARTS LETTERS ARE HERE!" Harry jumped out of bed at this statement looking around for the source of the noise when he realized that Michael was yelling about Hogwarts letters arriving. Seeing as he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep he went downstairs.
"Jeez Michael. Couldn't you keep you voice a light quieter. Some people are trying to sleep."
"But our Hogwarts letters are here."
"Yeah, yeah. Whatever." He then noticed a red-tailed Hawk approaching. He opened the window to let the hawk in. He relieved the hawk of the mail and then the hawk left. Seeing as it was addressed to him, he opened it before his Hogwarts letter.
Dear Mr. Potter,
You have been accepted into the Salem school of Magic. We hope you will be able to attend our school. Term Starts on August 28th. You are allowed a maximum of four pets. This letter is also a portkey that will become active starting on August 23rd. The activation phrase is 'as one'. We hope that you will choose our school. Please respond by August 10th.
The Supplies That you will need:
Magical Defense and its applications: year 1 by Joe Joe Nacko
Herbology and it's uses: year 1 by Ned Vore
Potions: how to make it: year 1 by Zed Calm
Charms, Charms, and more charms by Jeffery Osa
Transformations and many other things by Bud Thompson
Beasts of the magical world by Rachel Okcan
A guide to the stars by Jane Lation
History of the magical world by John Lin
3 sets of school uniform (will be provided if you pay 20 galleons)
1 winter jacket
1 telescope
1 set of scales
1 pewter size 11 cauldron
1 sword of your choice
1 wand bought from Eddie's wands in Mountain Mall
5 packs of pencils and pens
3 notebooks per class
Broomsticks are allowed and first years may try-out for the club teams
Sincerely,
Conor Benerman
Deputy Headmaster
Charms Teacher
Harry's face lit up with joy. Then he started running around the mansion yelling, "YES! I got in! Yahoooooooooo!" Lily and James came down stairs, tired, to see their first born running around like he was on a sugar rush.
"Michael, why is Harry running around like a crazy person?"
"I don't know. He just read that other letter and he started yelling with joy."
"Well," said James, "let's read this letter." Then they read the opened letter that harry had left on the table. After James and Lily had read the table, they called Harry to come over. But when he wasn't coming they were forced to stun him to stop him for running around like a crazed maniac.
"Harry, why does it say that you were accepted into a school we never sent an application to?" asked Lily. Harry found the floor very interesting at this point. "Harry, what did you do?" Harry mumbled something as an answer. "What was that?"
"I said that me and Neville sent applications to that school exactly one year ago," said Harry really fast. James and Lily's eyes widen then narrow.
"What do you mean you sent applications exactly a year ago?"
"We filled out the application on Michael's last birthday party and then sent them to Salem. We just don't want to go to Hogwarts."
"Fine. You may go to this school. But you will be grounded for three days when you come back for winter break. But I will accompany you to buy all the materials from Mountain Mall. But why do they need you to have some kind of sword Harry?"
"Uh, sword fighting may be a small part of their curriculum."
"WHAT? WHY DID YOU APPLY FOR THIS SCHOOL IF YOU KNEW THAT SWORD FIGHTING WAS A PART OF THE CURRICULUM."
"Because I kind of wanted to learn how to wield a sword when I read that they offered sword lessons as part of the curriculum."
"Ok. Send you letter of acceptance. When we go to Diagon Alley to get Michael's stuff, we'll get you some books for you. We'll also pay the 20 galleon fee for the uniform." Harry smiled like there was no tomorrow and got to writing the letter and sent if off with Hedwig.
|Monday August 25th|
Harry and his family left for the US on the 23rd. They were now at Mountain Mall. At the moment they were at Eddie's wands getting Harry's wand. Michael had gotten an 11 and ½ inch wand made of elm and a heartstring of a dragon.
"Ah. Mr. Potter I presume. Well let's get you started on the woods. I have many woods just reach out to them and see which has the strongest pull." Harry nodded and ran his hands over the pieces of wood. But the wood that pulled the strongest was an electric blue color with lighting bolts running up and down the wood.
"Interesting choice of wood. Well on to outer core." Harry felt many small pulls like to a basilisk fang, a dragon fang, but the greatest pull was to a talon of a griffin. "Well, you certainly interesting. Now for the inner core." Harry spent about 5 minutes going over the inner cores until he chose an electric blue dragon heartstring. "Well Mr. Potter, I must say that you are a most interesting person. You have chosen the wood from the fabled tree of life, Yggdrasil. Then you chose the talon of a griffin as the outside core, which will contain the heartstring of a storm dragon. Now as customary, I will also include a focus stone if you desire."
"I think I'll get a focus stone, if that's okay with my parents," replied Harry after pondering on the decision.
"How much is it to get a focus stone?"
"Without the focus stone the wand will cost about 45 galleons due to all the rare materials being used. With the focus stone, it will be about 50 galleons to 55 galleons depending on what focus stone is chosen by your son."
"Hmm. I guess you can get a focus stone Harry," answer James after thinking carefully about the answer. Harry's eyes glowed with joy. He then ran over to the focus stones and focuses on which would be the best for him. He finally decides on an aquamarine.
"Ok. Mr. Potter, unless you want to watch me craft you wand together for about an hour, so I suggest you go get the rest of your school supplies while you wait for me to finish up with your wand. Also, your wand will cost 50 galleons." James nodded and paid for the wand. They then went to the bookstore, which was called Books of all kinds to get the books that they needed to take to school. In addition to the books he needed for school, Harry also got books animagus transformation, which wasn't seen by his mother. They put all the books into Harry's trunk at the store. They then went and got all the needed potions supplies from the Necessary Potion Ingredients store. They also went to get a broom for Harry since he, unlike Michael, was allowed brooms. They got a Nimbus 2000. After that the potter family went and picked up the wand from Eddie's wands.
"Well, Harry, do you want to go to the school now or do you want to wait for Neville to go to school now?"
"I'll wait for Neville to come before we go to the school. It'll be much more fun to do it with my best friend than alone," replied Harry.
"Okay. Let's go back to the hotel. Neville should be arriving tomorrow. We'll go find something to do later. Maybe we go to a movie later on." Then entire Potter family went to the hotel. On that last day that they had together, Rose and Harry played all day together. They did many things until it was time for them to go to a movie theater. They played with Rose's favorite dolls, went out for ice cream at the Mountain Mall, and played at a park that was close to Mountain Mall.
|The Next Day: 2 pm|
Harry was sitting in the hotel room, looking out the window, brooding about what was going to happen to him in the upcoming school year when he felt a tickling charm hit him in the back.
"Hey Nev," said Harry without turning around to look at his friend.
"Hey Harry. What is wrong? You're not usually one to brood."
"Just thinking Nev. What is going to happen to me now that I'm going to happen to my family? You know that they are highly prejudiced against anything even remotely close to dark magic. What if they frown upon the grey magic that we learn at Salem?"
"You're thinking too much. They'll never see you in that light. Your parents both love you very much. Even if they don't you know my parents, especially my mom and Sirius will always love you, no matter what you do. Besides, I'll be there with you every step of the way." Harry smiled at Neville gratefully. "Thank Nev. I needed you to say that. I needed you to knock some sense back into my head."
"Your welcome, and I'll do it any day. Besides, I can't have my partner-in-crime be down. We need to show the school just exactly who we are with one big prank. I think we should call ourselves the Lords of Pranksters."
"Awesome name. But how do you want to prank everyone? But let's not do it on opening feast. Let's do it on Halloween. That gives us enough time to plan our horrific prank."
"Agreed. Now let's go and grab our trunks and portkey out of here."
"Alright, but first I need to say bye to my parents and Rose," replied Harry as he stood up and grabbed his trunk. They both went downstairs to the lobby where everyone else was eating or drinking. When everyone saw Harry's trunk, they immediately knew that he was leaving.
"Bye mum, dad, Rose. I'll see you later," said Harry with a happy smile on his face.
"Later Harry. But don't forget to say goodbye to your brother," replied James. Harry rolled his eyes and sighed. "Fine. Later Michael. Try not to mess up at school." Then Harry activated his portkey by saying the phrase, "As one." Then Harry disappeared along with his trunk to his new school of Salem. A few minutes later Neville joined Harry at Salem.
|Salem Magical School: entrance hall|
"Wow. We're actually here Harry! We're actually here!" yelled Neville while staring at the ground in front of them. A teacher then entered the entrance hall and said, "Hello, my name is Gabriel Chacko. I'm here to escort you to your dormitory. While you're here, I will teach you sword crafting. You will choose one of the many swords that I have here to use as your personal sword while you're here. You see I give one sword to every single student that attends here. I've done it since I started here, and I will continue to do it until the headmistress says no to my doing it. If you want we can do it right now." Neville and Harry looked at the man in awe. He was a very tall man with a height of 6'5". He looked like he had no muscle anywhere, but his craft suggested otherwise. He also had many scars running up and down his legs and arms. He wore as shirt that says "Everybody Loves Ramen" and white shorts that came down to just above his knees. He wore glasses over dark brown eyes. He had a very dark brown skin. (A) He also had very long hair. He had it styled in such a way that the hair on the back came into a ponytail.
"Uh. Okay. Oh and our names are Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom," stammered out Harry after he had broken out of his stupor.
"Great," said Gabriel with a bright smile. "Then let's go get you settled into your dorms. You guys aren't the first ones here, two students arrived yesterday. However, the ones who have arrived are girls that are going to become first years and upper years. Most of the 5th through 7th years are here. Only the genius kids aren't here," said Gabriel as they walked towards the dorms. "Here, the set up is like it would be at a muggle college. It is 2 per dorm. You two will be bunking in…" said Gabriel until he got to the end of his sentence, where he trailed off. He then took out a shrunken ipad, and looked up what room they were in. "AH. Here we are. You two will be bunking in B101."(B) He then noticed the weird looks that they were giving him. "What?"
"How is that technology working? I can barely get a T.V. to work in a magical house, let alone a school. I thought that magic and technology don't mix well," said Harry with wide eyes.
"Oh this? Yeah, I'm not the best person to ask. But after we get you guys your swords, then I'll take you to the person who is a master of this stuff." Both boys brightened at this. They then reached room B101. They put their trunks in their rooms and waved their wands, which caused all their things to unpack for them. Gabriel also handed them their keys to their room.
"Wow. Already doing magic I see. Oh and don't worry about people breaking into your rooms. The doors are magical keyed to only the keys that you hold in your hands. Those keys will only let you or a teacher hold them. Well, let's go get you guys your swords. Let me explain how the kind of sword you choose will affect you life here at Salem," said Gabriel as they walked. "See, here at Salem, we teach students to use their swords in conjunction with their wand as a tool to block spells. The metal I use to forge the swords is very spell resistant. I call it metametal. You see, the steel I get out of rocks is infused with magic while they are in the ground because the site that I take the metal from is highly active magic. This causes the steel to be very magic resistant. But enough of that, the basic style that you are taught is based on what weapon you choose. If you choose a broadsword, you have a more defensive and aggressive style. If you choose a ninjato, it's more speed and agility. If you choose a katana, you get a more elegant yet aggressive sword style. The final examples I can think off of my head are wakizashi and rapier. The wakizashi uses quick strikes and getting close to the opponent. The rapier uses a surprise attacks and lots of evasion. But now you choose the sword that you think is best for you," said Gabriel as they approached the weapon forge. The boys looked around the forge, which was at the heart of the school campus, and looked at the many swords there. Harry was leaning more to a katana, ninjato, or a wakizashi. Neville was leaning towards a broadsword or a claymore.
"Uh, Professor Gabriel?"
"Yes Harry? And you don't have to call me professor unless we're in class. Just call me Mr. Gabriel. After all I'm only 24."
"Uh, do we have to choose one definite sword? I can't decide between a ninjato, katana, or a wakizashi."
"Well, no. I would advise that you choose the katana, wakizashi, and ninjato that will fit you and try them all out. Then after the first week of classes choose which one you feel more at one with."
"Ok, thanks Mr. Gabriel," said Harry with a smile, and then went to tell Neville. Harry then brought a wakizashi, a katana, and a ninjato. Neville brought a broadsword and a claymore.
"I see. So you are going to take more than one sword to start off with? Well most people do. I've only had one person take the sword that they felt most at one with on his very first try. Her name was Ikari Rikaze. She graduates this year. But boy, has she done wonders with that sword."
"What kind of sword did she choose?" asked Neville.
"She chose a katana much like Harry. But no I'm going to introduce you to the teacher of technomagic, who will be able to tell you why muggle machines can work around magic." He then took them to the classroom of Arnie Ramirez after they put the swords away in their dorm. He knocked.
"Come in," came a loud voice. They opened the door and saw man with a slight curve in his stomach. "Oh, hey Grebble. What can I do for you? And who are these youngsters."
"These young people are new students who came early. They wanted to know about how technology and magic works. Now, I have to go start forging a few new swords. I got a commission earlier today from someone by the name of Conrad Green. Apparently he lives in Montebello which is in Denver."
"Wow, it's not often you get a commission."
"Yeah, but the best part of it is that he's a muggle. It was really interesting when I went to work out the details on what kind of sword he wanted and all that jazz."
"Yeah. Well you go off and work on your sword. I'll explain technomagic to these youngsters. I believe we'll be here until about dinner time." Gabriel nodded and left for his forge. Arnie then closed the door with a wave of his hand. "Before we dive into technomagic, let's introduce ourselves. My name is Arnie Ramirez. I've been a friend of Gabriel since school. We both went here for school. Then he went off to MIT to get a degree in muggle computer science, while I went to Iowa Stat University to study computer science, biotechnology, and learn Chinese. I almost fooled a Chinese guy by making him think that I was part Chinese with how fluently I spoke Chinese. Now who are you?"
"My name is Harry Potter and"
"I am Neville Longbottom we"
"are partners in crime, best friends"
"magic maniacs and so much more."
"We speak English, Japanese"
"Korean and Chinese"
"And we despise
"Michael Potter!"
"Michael Potter!" said both of them, speaking in turn. (C) Arnie just looked at them blinking his eyes in shock. Then all of a sudden he started laughing his head off.
"Wow. You guys sure are good at that twin speak. Well, now that we have been introduced, let's get down to business. Technomagic is only taught to third years and above. However, if you are interested, I will teach you during the weekends of both your first and second years. Now, let start on what technomagic is. Technomagic is manipulating magic and technology together. To allow magic and technology to work around each other, you must know how to transform the magic into an energy that has properties of energies like electricity. To transform it into this energy you must…"
|Dinner Time|
After a very boring and fascinating lecture, both Harry and Neville left the room in a daze. They then left for the dining hall. They then sat at the first year table where there weåe two other girls sitting at the table with them.
"Hey there. We were wondering if we could join you?" asked Harry as he and Neville sat down across from the two girls.
"Of course you can. My name is Rachel Trask. This is my sister Helena Trask," said Rachel as she pointed to her sister. She had long copper hair, freckles, and blue eyes. She and her sister wore just a normal pair of jeans and a t-shirt. Her t-shirt was red and it said 'Cool is the rule!' Her sister wore a blue t-shirt that had the brand for Hollister on it.
"Hello Rachel, Helena. My name is Harry Potter. My friend here is called Neville Longbottom."
"Cool. What classes are you going to take?" asked Helena.
"Well, we are taking" started Harry.
"defense, charms, potions"
"Transfiguration, Herbology, and history of magic"
"the usual subjects and"
"Swordsmanship, martial arts"
"and getting tutored in a special branch of magic," finished Neville. They looked at the two girls sitting across from them, and saw both of them staring wide-eyed. They then grinned and gave each other high fives, which snapped both girls out of their stares.
"Wow," breathed Helena.
"You said it sister. That was amazing. But what branch of magic are you being tutored in and how much did it cost?" Both Harry and Neville looked at each other and nodded. "We are"
"being tutored in"
"the illustrious art of"
"technomagic by the"
"master of technomagic himself"
"Arnie Ramirez! And the best"
"part is that it doesn't"
"even cost a penny"
Rachel blinked owlishly then glared. "You two have got to stop doing that. Are you sure you're not related to each other?"
"We are most definitely not siblings."
"Though we may have had ancestors in each others' family tree."
"Anything is possible."
"WILL YOU TWO STOP TALKING LIKE THAT? IT IS DREADFULLY ANNOYING!" Harry sighed and then nodded. "Fine. We'll try not to do it as much. But we do it a lot to annoy the hell out of my little brother."
"Why? Aren't big brothers supposed to be kind to your little brothers?"
"Well he's more like my twin brother who is younger than my by 5 minutes. Also, why would I be kind to him? He is an arrogant, useless, pathetic prat. The only thing that he cares about is fame and pranks."
"You wouldn't happen to be talking about the boy-who-lived would you?" asked Helena.
"Yes, why? Don't tell me that you are fan girls of his. Because if you are, I'm leaving."
"Oh no. We just think that he is an arrogant prat. We went to England once for vacation and when we saw your dad and him soaking up the fame, well it just disgusted us."
"Glad to hear that we aren't the only ones who don't like him. Well, not that I don't like talking to you, but I'm going to start eating," said Neville. He and Harry then grabbed a plate and went up to the buffet to grab some food. He grabbed some chicken and sweet potatoes. Harry grabbed some ribs and mashed potatoes. All of them began eating in silence until Harry asked, "So, where do you guys live?"
"Oh. We live in Virginia. The address of our house is 9999 Cory Lane in Mclean, Virginia. How about you?"
"Oh, well that's kind of hard to give. Wait, it's not our fault," said Harry as he saw Helena starting to get mad, "It under a fidelius charm and we aren't the secret keeper. The only one who could give you the address to our houses is our fathers."
"Oh. Ok. Well, do you want to go exploring? We still have a couple of hours before curfew," asked Rachel.
"Of course. Lead the way," said Harry as they got up and left the dining hall. They explored the campus for the rest of the day. They learned that there were dueling championships that were held every month. They had one for each grade level. The dueling arenas were massive. They had three buildings just for dueling arenas, another two for Herbology, one for learning potions, one for creating potions, one for spell crafting, one for sword crafting, one for swordsmanship, two for technomagic projects, and finally two for runes projects. Of course there was also anther building with classrooms for the classes that had special buildings and no special buildings. There also was a garden that was very beautiful and a magical dome for magical animals so that they could be outside. Both boys had the time of their lives. Eventually it was time to go to bed. They said goodnight and headed to their respective dorms.
"Well Neville," said Harry as he got into bed, "what do you think of this school? Did I do I do this school justice when I explained the school to you?"
"Not even close. This is so much better than when you explained it. This was so worth getting grounded over Christmas break," said Neville in relief.
"I know. It was worth the trouble, not having to stay with Mr. I'm-king-of-the-world."
"Yeah. G'night Harry. See you in the morning."
"Yeah. Night Nev." After about 5 minutes they were both in deep sleep.
A/N
A: Sorry if this is offending, but it is not like an African American. It is like an Indian brown color. The character is based off of how I look. But the personality isn't anything like me; I hope.
B: Yeah, I know that ipads didn't exist back then, but this is my story so deal with it. Besides one of the subjects is technomagic and that's kind of hard without much technology
C: Think of the Weasely twin speak
Well, how do you like it? Is it going along to fast? Tell me.
