~Everything's Not What It Seems~
Alex and Justin are siblings sent to Hogwarts to learn about magic just like their father. There they meet new friends, fall in love, and find out that truly everything is not what it seems.
Disclaimer: J.K Rowling and Disney Channel own the right to all these character. I am only borrowing them :)
Alex's POV
It's lunch and I'm sitting at the end of the Gryffindor table by myself. We got out of Hargid's class early because that brainless kid Malfoy decided to run up to Buckbeak without warning, moron! Harry, Hermione, and Ron invited me to join them, but I told them I hadn't seen my brother since morning and would meet up with them later. I placed a French fry in my mouth as I study the picture of a hypogriff in our textbook. I hear a gasp and look up to see Justin, Max, and Cedric staring at me, Max and Justin with their eyes practically popping out.
"What?" I ask after swallowing the French fry.
"Alex… you're reading a book!" Max pretends to faint on Justin's shoulder.
"Shut-up, I was just looking up info on the hypogriff." I roll my eyes and turn my attention back to the book.
"So it's true?" I look back up and see Cedric watching me, he and Justin sit down while Max stays standing as he stares at Justin and Cedric.
"What's true?"
"The rumor about how you fearlessly walked up to a hypogriff, petted it, then rid it?" Cedric watches me curiously. I don't get it, is this supposed to be amazing? And it only happened half an hour ago, how did this news get to them?
I shrug. "Yeah, it was no big deal. Harry and I did it."
"Harry Potter?" I look at Justin who is looking at me in disbelief.
I nod. "Yeah… so?"
Justin shakes his head. "Nothing, it didn't hurt you did it?"
"No Justin, I'm fine." I roll my eyes and look at Max. "Max, how was your first day?"
"It was awesome! That hat really sorted me to the right house; Hufflepuff's are my kinda of people!" Max smiles and looks over to the table, a girl about his age with brown hair and blue eyes waves to him. He looks at me and waves. "Later Alex, see yah Justin!" I watch as Max runs over to the Hufflepuff table and joins the girl and some other guys who give him high-fives.
"I'll catch you guys later too; I have some Hufflepuff Quidditch matters to tend to." Cedric nods towards us before getting up and leaving.
I look at Justin and smile. "Max looks happy." I notice his frown… uggh, what did I do this time? "What? Why have you been looking at me like that?"
"Don't you remember what dad said? Dad said, don't bring too much attention to yourself!" Justin points at me annoyingly causing me to frown.
"How did I bring attention to myself?" I ask as I fold my arms over my chest.
"Oh well, let's see… first there's the hypogriff then there's HARRY POTTER!"I stare at Justin confused. What does Harry have anything to do with this?
Justin shakes his head disapprovingly then leans forward so no one can hear us. "Alex, it's Harry POTTER, doesn't the name ring a bell? 'The one who lived!' He has everyone watching him, the last thing we need is for you to be around him so the attention goes towards you! Also…" Justin stops and moves away as he starts to think.
"Also… what?" I look at my brother curiously.
"Also… Harry Potter, the chosen one, is James Potter's son. James Potter… as in 'Prongs.'" My eyes go wide at the mention of that name, Prongs! I've heard the stories over and over again, Prongs was in so many of them, rarely the name James was used. How could I forget? I look at my brother sadly; he nods with sad look also on his face.
"So Harry is…" Before I can continue Justin interrupts.
"Yes he is. That doesn't matter much but it might draw attention to you. People might want to know, who is the girl hanging around Harry Potter? You can't hang out with him anymore Alex." I look sadly over at Harry, who is talking animatedly to Ron and Hermione. "Alex, do you understand?"
I look at Justin and nod. "Yes, I understand, I can't be friends with Harry."
"I'm sorry Alex, I know you hate being told what to do, but this is important! For your safety Alex, stay away from Harry Potter." For some reason my heart drops hearing those words, but I know Justin is right; I need to stay away from Harry.
Suddenly Seamus runs into the room yelling about news. I look up and see him stop by Harry, Ron and Hermione and show a newspaper to them. I stand up, about to go over and take a look when I feel a hand on my shoulder. I look at Justin to see him motioning me back down. I look at the crowd gathering around Harry one last time before sitting down.
"What do you think that's about?" I look at Justin.
Justin shakes his head and starts to load food on his plate. "Whatever it is, it doesn't concern us Alex. Come on, let's eat." Justin digs into his food as I continue to watch my fellow Gryffindor's. I look down at my plate and start to eat my French fries again. Justin's right… it doesn't concern me…
~In Defense Against the Dark Arts Class~
I'm standing on the side of the crowd of students in my class, hoping that Ron and Harry don't see me. I tried to find Hermione when I came in, but she was nowhere to be seen, and even now I don't see her. Everyone is looking at a dresser in the middle of the room that's moving. I move a little forward and curiously look at the dresser.
"Intriguing isn't it? Anyone want to make a guess as to what it is?" I turn around to see a middle-aged man with fair skin, brown hair, and a beard and mustache walks into the room. He must be the professor… I think his name is Professor Lupin… I think… He looks around the class curiously waiting for an answer.
"That's a boggart." A boy says from the crowd.
Professor Lupin nods at the boy. "And does anyone hear know what a boggart looks like?"
"No one knows." I look towards the middle of the crowd of students to see Hermione standing there, her hair is up and she looks out-of-breath. "They're shape-shifters; they take shape of whatever a person fears the most." Hermione continues while Ron looks at her in shock.
"There is a charm though, to protect yourself from the boggart, we will practice that today, without your wands of course. Repeat after me, 'Ridiculous!'" The class repeats after him and he nods. "This is only the easy part. In order to complete the spell you must laugh, think of something truly amusing to you which would cause you to laugh. Let's try this, Neville please step forward." Everyone looks to Neville, he hesitantly walks forward and stops in front of Professor Lupin. "So Neville, tell me what scares you the most."
Neville looks nervously at Professor Lupin a while before finally answering. "Professor Snape."
The class bursts into laughter, Lupin joins in and nods. "Aren't we all? You live with your grandmother don't you Neville?"
"Yes, but I don't want it to turn to her either!" Neville says, causing more laughter from the class.
Professor Lupin goes over to Neville's ear and whispers to him, when he's done he pull back and looks at Neville. "You got it?" Neville nods and Professor Lupin steps back and faces the dresser. He pulls out his wand and holds it towards the dresser, the door slowly opens. I watch curiously with the rest of the class, when the door opens, out comes Professor Snape! He runs towards Neville as Neville looks at Snape in shock.
"Ridiculous!" Snape starts to change and suddenly he's in old lady clothes. The class bursts into laughter, Neville looks around at the class relieved.
"Good job Neville, everyone form a line so you can all get a chance!" Professor Lupin instructs as he moves towards a record player and puts on music.
I get in line with everyone else; people start to push as they struggle to get forward. The class giggles and laughs as each student is up, when it's Harry's turn I look around everyone to watch intently what he is scared of. What could Harry Potter be scared of? Voltemort? I look at the clown that the last student made appear to see it transform in something dark… a hooded ghost? What is it… Before it can move any closer to Harry, Professor Lupin jumps in front of him and the hooded ghost turns into a full moon, which soon turns into a balloon as Lupin scream 'Ridiculous!'
"We'll only do a few more then you can collect your books and go." Lupin nods at the Seamus who steps forward. I watch Harry, who slowly moves to the side of the classroom looks distraught. Hermione and Ron go over to him in worry. What is that thing and why is Harry afraid of it so much?
"Next, next?" I look up and see that no one is in front of me and Professor Lupin is looking at me. I step forward and look at a rubber snake on the ground. The snake transforms into two large figures, I study it hard until finally it's clear… it's a body and a strange figure standing over it. I hear shrieks behind me as I start to walk forward. That's when I see who's body it is… it's… JUSTIN! My heart stops and I shriek as I stare at Justin's dead body then at the figure over him. The figure slowly raises its head toward me, but before I see its face they both disappear… I don't know what happened after that, because everything goes black.
~In Infirmary~
I feel a horrible pain in my head, I open my eyes and see a lot of white, where am I?
"She's coming around, Madam Pomfrey, she's coming around!" Justin? That's Justin! I look to my right to see Justin and Max standing over me, with relief on their face. Behind them I see Professor Lupin watching me with concern.
"Justin, what happened?" I ask groggily.
"You hit your head when you fainted, your mind was very creative when it came to the boggart, you were able to see two fears rather than one… quite rare I must say." Professor Lupin replies as he looks at me curiously.
"Move aside you three; I need to check on the child." A woman in a nurse's outfit comes over to me and looks at my head. "Hmmm, you look fine to me but we'll keep you till tomorrow morning, just in case." She turns and looks at Max and Justin. "I said you two can stay until your sister wakes up, she woke up so now you two are leaving!" Max and Justin try to protest as the nurse pushes them out of the room.
When they're gone, I look at Professor Lupin. He sits down in the seat beside me and looks at me before finally speaking. "I finally meet Alex B-Russo. Sorry, force of habit." Wait, was he about to say what I think he was about to say? I look at him curiously as he thinks.
"What were you about to say?" I raise an eyebrow at him.
He stares at me a while before responding. "What do you mean?"
I shake my head. Maybe I just heard it wrong… or maybe he knows someone else by the name of Alex. I shouldn't have even given him the chance of thinking into this. Justin would be mad… we promised dad we'd lay low. "Nothing, I think I just heard you wrong."
Professor Lupin nods and stands up. "Well Alex, it was nice seeing you again but I must be off. See you in class tomorrow." With that he turns around and walks out of the room. I stare after him curiously, his words going through my mind over and over again. What does he mean, 'it was nice seeing you again'?
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