Hey back again and here is a new chapter. Not much will happen besides a moments of twin fun,a troll, first quidditch match and some digging to find out what is being guarded.(we all know what it is).
Stefan's pov
" You four did what! Hermione you should have known better, if you were all caught we lost points for Gryffindor!" I shout at Harry, Ron, Hermoine and Neville.
Ron try giving me some dumb excuse of Malfoy challenging Harry to a wizard duel. " he was bailing Harry into being out late and if you were caught how many point were had been lost for the house. Harry next time don't fall for his tricks, Hermoine tells me next time they do plan something like this again so I talk some sense into them and Neville stays away next time" I said making sure that Ron noticed I didn't mention him.
I also give Neville a piece of paper with Gryffindor password on it. So he won't be locked out next time and a promise to help him with his homework too. I was too mad with Ron to scorn him because he likely encouraged Harry to accept the fake duel.
Later on during potion class Draco looks unhappy. I helped Neville during class so Snape doesn't pick on him. Harry and Ron screwed up their potion and it was funny watching Snape fall on them with insults and having to help them before they blew us all up.
Hagrid, the large man from the first day I found, is the ground keeper of the school. He has an accent that I found a little funny but he also found mine funny.
Harry, Ron and Hermione have become good friends with him. I sometimes go with them when they visit him but not a lot since I am busy with school work, practicing spells or helping someone. But I like the giant he has fun with and his dog Fang is so soft.
I also developed a British accent and after a few weeks I began talking with a northern accent. Hermione, Sue, Susan, Hannah and new friends I made. Terry Boot from Ravenclaw, Roger Malone, Megan Jones and Wayne Hopkins from Hufflepuffs.
We formed a study group that sometimes Harry and Ron joined for help. On the first day I spoke with a northern English accent and they all looked at me oddly like I grew a second head. " something wrong?" I asked.
" You sound weird," Hermione said to me and I laughed. " What do you mean I sound the same? Is my voice different now" I ask with a grin. " your American accent is gone and you have this weird northern accent now" Susan answers and everyone agrees with her. Our study session was unusually quiet. I could see it on their faces, they didn't like my accent. But I decided to keep using it and eventually they got used to it.
The next few days everyone including the teachers found my new accent weird. In this time I refined my accent some more and it's now much better. I also saw one of Harry's quidditch practices. It was amazing how fast they went and the moves they did in the air.
Harry introduced me to Gryffindor team captain Oliver Wood and let me fly on his new nimbus 2000 that professor McGonagall brought for him. The look on Malfoy's face was priceless when Harry got the broom in the mail and found out he is in the quidditch team.
Everyone in Gryffindor wished Harry good luck in the first match of the season. And I did ok on the broom. Oliver told me, I might try out for the team next year. First, I need much practice because I freak out a bit when I get up really high. Staying low I can do and I ask for a broom in my next letter.
Harry thought it was funny how I didn't fly higher. After this I played wizard chess with Ron for a while. Before I got sucked into discussing magical theories with Hermione and other brainy kids. My head felt like exploding after listening to how magical creatures, wands and wizards came to be.
The next few days were normal as usual but I somehow caught on fire during potion class. Not sure how it happened but I think someone from Slytherin cast a fire spell which caught my robe on fire. I noticed when Hermione smelled smoke and when I looked for the source I found the bottom end of my robe burning.I dropped and rolled til it was out. Professor Snape try to find out who did it but no one said anything so he gave everyone but me twice as much homework for that stunt
Halloween came with delight at the thought of dressing up but found out they don't do that here. During professor Flitwick class he had us make objects fly. Me and Hermione were the ones who could but she acted like it was nothing and showed off.
Ron after class makes some nasty comments about her that send her running off crying. I cast a spell on Ron to stick him to a wall for a bit for what he said. I tried to catch her but she ran too fast, later during the feast for Halloween where I convinced professor McGonagall to let me dress up in an old soviet greatcoat which I got from a fourth year ravenclaw who has a Russian wizard for a dad for ten gallons. I also wore boots and military pants that barely fit.
Only reason she let me dress up was because she thinks it's a great cultural experience for students to see how Americans celebrate Halloween. I also use my best Russian accent that I developed from watching foreign films. Everyone found my new accent really weird, Susan and Li both hit me on the head with their wands for the accent. Which they both don't like and a few others also voiced they want me to stop talking like that. I noticed Hermione was missing and I asked around and was told she was last seen crying in a girl restroom.
During the middle of the feast the DADA professor stormed in shouting troll in the dungeon before fainting like a girl. Almost everyone screams but the headmaster calms them down and orders the prefects to lead the students back to their quarters while the teachers hunt for the troll.
Somehow, Ron and Harry ended up looking for Hermione and met the troll. He was at least to me twelve foot tall, he also very ugly, his skin is grayish, also he seems stupid and carrying a club which he try to hurt Hermione with. I shoot a low class stunner spell grandpa taught me. Had no effect beside making it mad and targeting me first I dodge the club and shoot another stunner at it.
Harry at this moment is leading a scare and shock Hermione out of the restroom while Ron helps me as the troll grabs me and holds me upside down. Ron saved me from being smashed against the walls or floor by lifting the Troll's club over his head and dropping it on him.
Harry and Hermione return with the teachers to the now ruined girl restroom, wands draw, they take charge, professor McGonagall scolds us on what we did and tells us very few first years can take on a troll and live to tell about it." It's not their fault, professor . I thought I could take on the troll since I read a lot about them" Hermione says.
The teacher scolded Hermoine, took some points which Ron and I won back for our bravery in saving Hermione. Afterwards Hermione asked why I dress like that and told to stick with one accent or she hex me.
Later when we were at our house common room I did an American northern accent for fun, she chased me around the common room hitting me with a pillow and saying to stop switching accents while Ron and Harry laughed.
Harry's first quidditch match was against Slytherin and we won with Harry almost choking on a snitch but beside that and his broom going haywire during the match and him almost falling he was alright.
Later Ron and Hermione told me it was professor Snape who caused Harry's broom to go wild and what Hermione did. While I find it hard to believe Snape wants to kill Harry, it does seem possible since he has a deep hate of Harry.
But for the moment I push the thoughts away and continue on with charm class. My parents have been sending more than the usual amount of letters I get with the last one scolding me for fighting a troll. Grandfather sent one saying he was very mad at me for the troll incident and telling me not to do it again or no new broom.
Grandma sent a letter too telling me to never fight a troll again or she would tan my hide. I flinch at that and also one from my siblings they all helped write it. Say they are so jealous of me going to a magic school and being a wizard. They also mention how things are going and bring home a dragon to keep as a pet.
I also got more cookies, some homemade socks, a raincoat, a very long scarf that reminds me of Tom baker's, more underwear and some money which was almost useless since it's American money plus not accepted in the magical world.
But I found some muggleborns students who accepted it for doing my homework for a few classes.
Hermione lectured me for that during our next study group as I was reading 1984 but I did tell now I was ahead of her. The group just watched in amusement at this and Hermione gave me the silent treatment.
I brush it off as I kept reading my book, I brought it off a muggleborn ravenclaw student and despite the school library having tons of books it has only a very few non magical books beside some history books. I try looking for novels by muggle authors but there aren't any which I found to be lame.
I did find a book of surprising about my family tree, after reading some 1984 I began looking over it and found out my family was established in Serbia in 1200 by Edward Brankovic the muggleborn son a Serbian official and his commoner English wife who he won from her father when he bet her in a game. He was born in 1178 and became a knight in 1200 for service with the east Roman empire. Took part in the fourth crusade and married an Italian noblewoman who he had six kids with before dying in 1245.
Edward was not a great wizard but he does have a good record of getting things done. The picture of him in the book was a small crude painting of a red haired man in armour in a battlefield. His son David expanded the old family holdings and defeated many Ottoman turk wizards, married a Greek woman, fathered three kids and died in 1276.
His son Michael the strong moved the family to England in 1300 after a seer told him his descendants will become great in the land of his grandmother. He died in 1323 and fathered five kids with an English merchant's daughter who was his second wife. He was named the strongest after winning a major victory against Ottoman wizards in Greece.
After this I read about ancestors who fought in many of England's wars, civil wars and rebellions. Also one Brankovic, Hercules Brankovic, in 1400 became an Earl and was awarded a Earldom that still stands to today.
Hermione looked over my shoulder and pointed out an ancestor Henry Brankovic who was the one who killed Richard the third at Bosworth. And another who commanded royalists in the English civil wars. She also points out I am related to the Bones, Malfoy, Abbot and surprisingly a few other pureblood families.
Susan got very quiet when Hermione said since my sixth great grandmother was a Bones and that I am a male. I could claim the Bones estate as a male descendant through the female line since the male line is extinct. " Hermione, I 'll probably get some of it but unless I were to marry Susan there's no way her aunt would allow the whole estate to be taken," I say and Susan blush deeply at this.
Hermione then pointed out that because of my tenth great grandmother Elizabeth Black I could claim the Black estate since the Black male line is dead. But I also pointed out to her Malfoy's mother is a Black and his claim will be stronger than my if I try that. Sue pointed out a portrait of me when we got to the section with modern Brankovic.
It was me when I was nine and had long hair. Everyone said I was cute and then searched through my family tree. My great great grandmother was a Longbottom so I am a cousin to Neville and that I am connected to a very noble French family by my now deceased grand aunt, my grandfather's youngest sister.
Later I found out from Ron about a three headed dog he, Harry and Hermione met on that night when Harry went to that fake duel. I was more hurt than surprised by the fact they didn't tell me earlier about this.
I didn't talk with them for a whole week before I talked with them again.
The weeks before Christmas pass fast with my schoolwork all done. Hermione is going home for the holidays, Ron and Harry are staying but I am not sure.
My answer came in a letter from my parents telling me I was coming home. I was happy about going home until I saw Ron and Harry. After a letter and some permissions Ron and Harry were coming over for the holiday. Ron is excited about going to America like Harry, they both stuttered when they met my grandpa but they greeted him very politely.
Ron falls over himself trying to impress him while Harry stays quiet. The trip like for me before was very quick and we stood in front of my house with the rest of my family waiting.
My siblings tackle me when I enter the house. They ask me tons of questions as I lay on the floor. Harry and Ron's faces were priceless when they saw how different they are from me. They have light brown skin tone, hazel or dark brown eyes, black hair and are different from me.
Ron was in pure shock at a muggle life, he turned on the lights a lot, listened to music on the radio and when he saw TV he kept asking how we got those people to fit in that tiny box. He also messed with a lot of things too before dinner, Harry was quiet and polite the whole time. My mother hugged me tightly when she saw me, dad had made her let me go and my siblings bugged me til I let them play with my wand.
My parents were a bit worried about this but grandma told them unless they had magic it's nothing more than a stick to them. Ron and Harry loved the spanish food my mom made, Ron fell for tacos and my mom kept feeding the ginger til he was full. It was funny watching his face as he drank his first muggle soda, Harry stuffing himself full too, dad and grandpa talking. My mom and grandma began talking about my future.
Peter, Samantha and Emma continue playing with my wand til streak of raw magic shot out when Emma waves it around. Grandfather took it quickly from her and examined her carefully.
" What do you know, she is a late bloomer" he said and grandpa says she has magic, it's weak but there and this means Hogwarts for her next year. My siblings cheered and my grandma got them to calm down to continue eating. Dinner was great and the next few days were ok. Ron learned more about the muggle world, rode a bike which ended in him crashing into a wall, watched TV, got his first potato chips and lots of stuff.
Harry joined in too but he was mostly quiet and a little shy. My mom fed them as much as they wanted, which led to Ron gaining some weight and Harry too but he needed it more than Ron. My siblings were still crazy about one of them going to the same school as me and being able to use magic.
Grandpa had me show off what I learned in Hogwarts and my parents were very proud. Despite my father being worried about how magic can change me and my mother being worried about me in a school so far away. She is now likely dreading when Emma leaves next school year for Hogwarts.
Grandma sewed the family's coat of arms, a Silver Dragon, on a black and gold field that is split into four squares on my school robes. The Upper right was gold, the upper left is black and the bottom half is the opposite. There also is under the dragon's front legs a scimitar being stomp on and the dragon is in a fierce looking stance.
Later on our last day on holiday I asked Harry what was wrong and he lied that there was nothing wrong. I pushed him until I figured out he was jealous of me and remembering his parents I said sorry. " no don't be, it's just seeing your family that makes me wish my parents never died." He said to me,
" yeah I guess I'm lucky then can't really imagine losing them" I say and he agrees. Later during a game of chess while Ron naps on the mattress grandpa made for him like Harry too, Harry tells me more about the three headed dog and also about a vault that he visited which shortly afterwards was broken into.
He explains about a mystery package that he and Hagrid got from the vault. And then mention how Snape had an injured leg during the troll incident and how he thinks he got it from that dog and maybe trying to steal something important.
I just listen and wonder if Harry might be just a bit paranoid. Yeah Professor Snape is usually mean to him but that doesn't mean he is an evil person and there is no solid proof of him planning to steal something. I kept my thoughts to myself and the next day after a big breakfast we went back to Hogwarts.
We left with some Christmas gifts and some packed food by my mom. Grandpa got us to the train station where we boarded the train back to Hogwarts. I wonder what the new year will hold for me as I listen to Ron and Harry talking about quidditch.
Next chapter I end the first year and move on to second year. The rest of Stefan's siblings will have magic but not sure if they all go to Hogwarts thinking of sending the other two to the American magical school. Sorry if Harry was ooc in this chapter. For some reason I can see Ron eating tacos like crazy.