I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER.
I forgot to add the disclaimer to Chapter 3, so I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER ON THAT ONE EITHER.
Chapter 4
Jade and Sarah were lounging in their room at the Leakey Cauldron when they heard a knock at the door. Their Hogwarts letters had arrived.
A few days earlier, Professor Dumbledore had given the two girls each a key. He continued to explain that they were for their vaults at Gringott's Bank.
"Vaults?" Sarah asked, noticing the plural tense.
"You each have a different one. Sarah, you have your mother's vault. Jade, your father's.
"Oh."
Dumbledore surveyed the girls as they examined their tiny keys. It worried him that they had not once asked about their parents and what happened to them. They obviously didn't care, but the man decided to mention them anyways.
"Would you two like to know who your parents are?" The professor asked, watching them.
"Not really," Jade replied. She turned to her sister. "You?"
"No, thanks." Sarah contributed evenly. Jade peered at Dumbledore.
"See," she said, "you said 'who they are' so that means that they're still alive. And parents that abandon their children aren't welcome with us.
The girls continued to examine their keys, so Dumbledore sighed, shook his head, and bade them farewell.
A few days later when their letters arrived, the two girls immediately left to go to their vaults. It amazed them to find that they were rich; there must have been hundreds of thousands of gold, silver and bronze coins in each one. Whoever their parents were, they certainly lived well.
Then they started exploring the many shops of Diagon Alley. They spent a very long time looking around the street, arguing over what they could and couldn't buy.
"Jade, come on, that's a solid gold cauldron!"
"Oh please, Sarah, you don't even know how to fly a broom, don't waste thousands of galleons on one!"
"You are not going to buy that cursed necklace. It's in Knockturn Alley!
In the late afternoon, they surveyed their letters to see if they missed anything.
"It says, 'You may bring an owl, a cat, or a toad'," Jade quoted. "Well, we don't have anyone to send letters to, so that rules the owl out. Cats just sit there and don't do anything, so none for me. And toads are useless, I don't even know why they're on the list. No pets for me, I guess."
"I kinda want a cat," Sarah said. "Remember that really scruffy-looking one we used to feed? Before It got squished by that Chevy, I mean."
"I always thought he was ugly."
"Well I liked him."
The girls started towards the pet store. "I'll be a few minutes," Sarah said and entered the store.
Jade walked over to a wall across the street and leaned on it. Just then, she saw two boys running at a dead sprint from around a corner. She could see why. About fifty meters behind them, there was a teenager running after them, screaming something incoherent at them. He had bright purple hair. The two boys bolted toward Jade's direction.
"We're not here," One of them whispered as then ran around to the other side of the wall. Jade saw that they were twins, both sporting red hair. The boy with purple hair stopped, looked around, and kept on running past the Jade and the wall that his the twins.
"I suppose you dyed his hair," Jade commented as the twin boys emerged from behind the wall.
"Yep," the one on the left grinned.
"Impressive. What class did you learn that in?"
"We didn't," the other one said, his grin just as large as his brother's. "It was real dye."
"Nice."
"I suppose we should introduce ourselves. I'm Fred," the one on the right said. "That there is George."
"Hey, I'm Fred," the other countered.
"No, you're not."
"Okay, I'm not. George admitted. "And you are?"
"Jade."
"Glad to meet your acquaintance, or something like that." Fred said.
"Jade, there you are," Sarah said, walking across the street to where her sister was. She was carrying a medium-sized box with holes punched in it.
"Hey, I'm seeing double," Fred and George said at the same time.
"So am I," the other set of twins laughed. Sarah introduced herself, and so did Fred and George.
"I saw someone with purple hair a few minutes ago through the window," Sarah chuckled. "Is that who you're hiding from?"
"Yeah. Speaking of which-"
"FRED! GEORGE!
A short plump woman with the same red hair as the boys came around the bend. She had a furious expression on her face.
"Oh, hello, dears," the woman, presumably the boys' mother, smiled at Jade and Sarah. She turned on her sons, suddenly looking like a ferocious tigress. "You two had better put Percy back this instant!"
"Come on, mum, it was just a joke!" Fred complained. "Oww!"
The woman grabbed them both by the ear and started dragging them along behind her.
"See you at Hogwarts!" One of them yelled painfully.
"So, Sarah," Jade spoke as if nothing had happened. "What does your new cat look like?"
Sarah unlatched her box and pulled out a small cat. Jade looked disgusted.
"That's not a cat. It's a rodent."
"It's a she, actually. And you're horrible by the way."
The whole was back the Leakey Cauldron, the girls argued about the cat. They bickered about whether her shade of gray was ugly or not, and whether her slight limp was attractive. One could probably guess which side each girl was on.
A/N
We are introduced to some different characters! Yay! Personally, the Weasley Twins are my favourites in the series. Draco Malfoy is a close second. We'll see some of him soon, don't worry about that. XOXO – Lyndasty Black
