Hey y'all! I'm just gonna skip the part where I give an excuse for not updating sooner and get right to the story. Here is the twins' first official day at Hogwarts. Oh yeah: I don't own Harry Potter because if I did I would be hangin out with the stars of the movies 24/7.
"Dudley I'm not making you anymore caviar biscuits," Nicki groaned as she was being pushed around on her bed.
Sydney sighed at her sister's laziness. "I'm not Dudley and we are not at home. Remember? We're at Hogwarts and we're going to be late for class if you don't move it."
Nicki waved her hand towards the door as she kept her position on the bed. "I'll catch up with you in a few minutes. Go ahead."
Sydney surrendered and walked out to the common room to find Justin waiting on one of the couches. Sydney walked over and asked, "Hi, I'm Sydney. Are you waiting on somebody?"
Justin nodded and said, "Nice to meet you. The name's Justin. I'm just waiting on Ron. I couldn't get his sleeping butt out of bed. You?"
"My sister refuses to get up, so I've given up on trying."
"How about we go on ahead and leave the two sleepers to find their way together?" Sydney agreed and the two of them went to Transfiguration class.
"Come on, we're gonna be late if you don't run!" Nicki hollered down to Ron. Both of them had overslept and then got lost in the numerous corridors. They ran into the classroom and were greeted by the laughter of their fellow first years.
Ron, out of breath from his run, exclaimed, "Good thing McGonagall's not here. She would've killed us for being late."
Suddenly, the cat sitting on the teacher's desk jumped down and transformed into an irritated Professor McGonagall. Nicki's face made it clear that she knew they were busted for tardiness.
Ron, however, was too busy gawking over the transformation. "That was wicked!" was Ron's outburst.
"Well thank you Mr. Weasley for that opinion. Now how about you and Miss Potter explain yourselves."
Nicki stuttered, "We got lost."
McGonagall took the excuse but said, "Well then maybe you should get yourselves a map, or maybe an alarm clock. Now please find your seats."
Nicki glared at her amused twin as she and Ron passed by Sydney and Justin. The two tardy students sat down at the desks across the aisle from the two grinning students. Class started and Sydney held back laughter as she watched Nicki attempting to write with a quill.
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Sydney, Nicki, Ron, and Justin all sat near each other in Potions, waiting for Snape to show up. Sydney felt uncomfortable as Draco kept winking and staring at her. Suddenly, the dungeon door slammed and Snape hurried into the classroom.
His orders flew out like lightning and he glared at the entire room excluding the Slytherins. He laid out his rules in a voice that meant business. Snape then started taking roll. Once he reached Nicki's name, he looked over to the bored girl. He then saw Sydney sitting next to Nicki and thought how Sydney was practically a spitting image of Lily Evans Potter and Nicki had the same messy hair and troublemaking look in her eyes as James Potter. He kept his stern mask despite his hatred for James Potter.
"Ah yes, the Potter twins—our new celebrities." Snape added extra dislike on the last word. He finished roll call and started lecturing on the importance of Potions. Sydney listened intently to every word, eager to prove her inheritance of her mother's legendary intelligence. Nicki, however, rolled her eyes and placed her head in her hands, attempting to zone out as Snape droned on.
Suddenly, Snape slammed his hands down in front of Nicki, causing her to practically jump out of her seat. "Miss Potter, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"
Sydney's hand shot up, her violet eyes sparkling. Snape ignored the blonde girl, his attention focused on the steamed brunette.
"I don't know, sir." Nicki had to betray her rebellious side just to mutter that last word of respect.
Snape seemed pleased with Nicki's lack of knowledge. "Tut, tut—fame clearly isn't everything." Snape threw two more questions out at Nicki, neither of which Nicki knew but Sydney's hand stayed up in the air.
After her third "I don't know" Nicki got fed up and disrespectfully said, "Why don't you ask my sister? She clearly knows the answer." The Slytherins, especially Malfoy and his cronies tried not to laugh at the twin in fear of punishment from their Head of house.
Snape, fed up with Nicki's ignorance, grabbed a chair and sat in front of her in an extremely unfriendly way. "For your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death. A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite." Nicki kept staring ignorantly and with dislike at Snape. He looked away from her for the first time and addressed the whole class. "Why aren't you all copying this down?" Everybody took out their quills and wrote down what he just said. Snape took a point away from Gryffindor for Nicki's "arrogance" and Nicki realized that she had never hated any other person more than her Potions professor.
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Malfoy kept flirting with Sydney and insulting Ron. The twins also had the "pleasure" of meeting Cynthia, Malfoy's cousin. She hated Sydney for "throwing herself at Justy." Thursday morning, the owls flew in and dropped off numerous letters and packages. The twins were invited by Hagrid to visit on Friday afternoon and they also found out that the vault Hagrid had visited was robbed, but nothing was taken because Hagrid had taken what was in the vault.
Neville received a package from his grandmother with a little glass ball in it, something Sydney called a Remembrall, designed to tell its owner when he forgot something.
That afternoon was flying lessons for the first years. Draco tried to impress Sydney by bragging of his many accomplishments on a broom and in quidditch. This backfired because even though Sydney loved riding horses, she hated the thought of flying on a broom and the game of quidditch bored her. Nicki, however, couldn't wait to start flying. She felt like it was in her blood to fly on a broom.
At 3:30, flying lessons started. Madam Hooch ordered everybody to stand beside a broom, hold their hand over it, and say "up." Nicki's broom flew into her hand immediately and she was almost pushed back by its speed of obedience. Malfoy's came up a second later and he scolded it for its laziness. Justin's came up at a nice speed and so did Ron's, but Neville's hit him on the nose and Sydney's did nothing but roll around on the ground.
Madam Hooch told them all to mount their brooms, but then Neville's started to fly up. He tried to come back down, but he ended up falling, getting caught on a statue's spear, and falling to the ground. Madam Hooch took Neville and his broken wrist to the hospital wing, ordering that nobody fly or they would be immediately expelled.
Malfoy picked up Neville's Remembrall and studied it. "Looks like the clumsy oaf dropped this. I'm not surprised. He always had a habit of breaking things with two feet on the ground, not just in the air." He, Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson along with the rest of Slytherin broke into evil laughter.
Nicki, fed up with this arrogant jerk, stepped up and order, "Give it here Malfoy." Some of the Gryffindors oohed at Nicki's courage.
Malfoy just turned around and spit back, "No. I think I'll leave it somewhere for him to find." Malfoy winked at Sydney, stepped on the edge of his broom, circled around the group, and flew up into the sky easily. He sat on his broom and tossed up and down the Remembrall. "How about a tree?" Malfoy was about to toss the glass ball into the nearest oak. "What's the matter Potter? A bit out of your reach?"
Nicki instinctively mounted her broom. Sydney stepped up and said, "Nick, no way! You heard Madam Hooch. You'll be expelled. Besides, we never learned how to fly. Nicki ignored her sister and flew up to her smirking enemy just as easily as he had. Sydney shook her head and muttered, "What an idiot."
Nicki steadied herself and called out, "Hand it here, Malfoy or I'll knock you off your broom!"
Malfoy had lost his smirk as he observed the twin's flying skills. He tried to regain his superiority by yelling, "Catch it if you can Potter." Malfoy tossed the ball as far away as he could.
Nicki flew past him at the speed of light and effortlessly caught the ball, not going unnoticed by McGonagall though. Nicki floated down to the ground to be greeted by every non-Slytherin in the class. Even Sydney was impressed and wondered why Nicki stunk at horseback riding, but was a natural at flying. Crabbe and Goyle ran over to help their leader, who had descended in defeat, too stunned to speak.
"NICOLE POTTER!"
McGonagall ran out onto the field looking flustered. Pansy snickered, "Busted." One look from Nicki shut the pug-faced girl up. McGonagall took Nicki back towards the castle as Sydney stood there worrying about her sister's fate.
Crabbe and Goyle were busy dusting off Malfoy's robes. Goyle muttered, "Malfoy, I think she kicked your butt."
Malfoy glared at the stupid lug. "I noticed."
Crabbe asked, "Do you want us to take care of her?" as he cracked his knuckles.
Malfoy answered, "No. Did you see her on that broom? She was amazing and she looked so beautiful with her hair flying behind her face as she chased that ball." Malfoy stared after Nicki as Crabbe and Goyle looked at each other with confused faces.
Nicki kept trying to explain, but McGonagall shushed her every time. McGonagall took Nicki to the Charms classroom. "Professor Filch, may I borrow Wood for a moment?" A muscular brunette with a Scottish accent came out of the classroom. "Nicole Potter, this is Oliver Wood: captain of the Gryffindor quidditch team. Wood, I think I've found your new Seeker."
Nicki held her hands up. "Wait a minute, I never agreed to this."
McGonagall gave the girl a stern but excited look. "Potter, I saw you on that broom. I haven't seen flying that graceful and fast since your father. You must have inherited his quidditch skills, like your sister inherited your mother's brains."
Wood walked around inspecting Nicki. "Hmm, light, speedy, graceful. She's perfect."
Nicki agreed, eager to follow her father's footsteps and prove that she was better at something than Sydney.
So, how was it? I left out some details cuz I don't feel like rewriting the whole book. Coming up next, well, you should know. Review and when you do answer this question: Should Hogwarts quidditch have a cheerleading team for each house? Review, but please do not leave any flames because I worked hard on this.