Chapter Four
The
Journey Begins
The weeks began to inch themselves along. I began spending
all my time snuggled up in front of the fire with one of my school books, most
poof the time A History of Magic or The Standard Book of Spells
(Grade 1). Aurora, my little white
kitten, would sit on my shoulder or on the arm of the chair, mewing softly. Mom
and Dad had already given me a lecture of proper edicate and that some things
were not right to say at school. When they mentioned mudblood and told us what
it was, their faces became full of discust.
Finally, the night before September 1st rolled around. Mom
and Dad called me upstairs, to pack my stuff up no doubt. Aurora climbed onto
my shoulder, she knew she was too small to climb the stairs. "Coming Mom!" I
yelled.
Mom and Dad were lugging two
large trunks from the attic. "Alexia, come haul this thing into your room. We
have to get Andy's out. Watch it, here it comes." Down floated a large trunk.
It landed right in front of me. Aurora jumped from my shoulder onto the top of
the trunk. I grabbed the handle of it and attempted to drag it into my bedroom,
but it wouldn't even budge. Aurora seemed to smile at me, like she was
laughing.
A thought struck me. Hey Andy! You're reading the charms
book aren't you? I asked my brother.
Yeah? Why? Need to know
something? He asked back.
Yeah, what's the spell for
levitation?
Um...let me check... He didn't respond for a few
minutes, I assumed he was looking for it. Found it! Levitation, um it's Win-gar-dium
levi-o-sa. Make the gar nice and long.
Thanks Andy.
No problem sis, now shut up so
I can read.
I looked at my kitten. "Alright Aurora,
how about I give it a shot?" I asked. It looked as if she had nodded. I took out
my wand from my front overalla pocket and swished it around. "Wingardium
Leviosa!" The trunk floated about
three feet into the air. Startled, Aurora jumped to the ground. I smiled. "Got
it on my first try! Cool!" I put Aurora back on top of the trunk and pulled it
into my room. It was practically weightless. Mom walked in at that moment.
I
smiled at her. "How do I get this thing down?" Mom waved her wand and it
floated back to the ground.
"Oh
Alex, I bet you're going to be top of the first years at your school." She
hugged me. I felt like it was a "whatever" moment. She let go. "Now, let's
start packing you up, ok?"
We
spent an hour or two slowly going through everything, then packing it up. Mom
gave me a few framed photographs. There was one taken of me and my friends from
school, one of Mom, Dad, Andy and I at Andy's and my eleventh birthday we had
spent at the park, one that was recently taken at Tree Grove Alley of all my
relatives I had met, and one of my father, mother and their friends from
Hogwarts in their seventh year. I looked at them, amazed. The pictures were
moving! They smiled up at me and waved.
"How
did you get these?" I asked her, my mouth hanging open.
"A
special potion," She answered as if it were nothing.
We
finished packing everything. The last three things to go was a cat basket for
Aurora, one of my uniforms to change into and a diary that Mom made me promise
I would write in every day. Finally, I closed the lid. The top of the trunk a
name was inscribed on it. "Virginia Weasley," I read out loud. "That's you
isn't it?" I asked her.
"Yes
it is. This was my old trunk. Your brother's getting your father's." She said.
She waved her wand, muttered something and my name, Alexia Lillian Potter,
appeared below hers. "Now, hop into bed. I'll tuck you in. You have a busy day
tomorrow."
She
pulled the covers up to my head, pecked me on my forehead and turned out the
lights. "Goodnight pumpkin," She said. I fell asleep two minutes later.
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"Do
we have everything?" Mom asked worriedly the next morning. We had all woken up
at six in the morning, it was now seven. She and Dad had already packed our
trunks up into the car. "Do you have your wands?" She asked us. We nodded, it
was the third time she asked us that question. She checked her watch. "Alright,
I'll pack your lunches and then we will head out the door."
It
was one hour later when we finally left. We would have left earlier, but Sirius
(Andy's kitten, he had named him after Dad's godfather Sirius Black) was
refusing to go into his travel cage. After about fifteen times of me asking
"Where are we going?" Dad told us we were going to the Metro Airport. We were
taking a charter flight or something like that. I didn't know what a charter
flight was, but I trusted my parents. Besides, I think that if I had opened my
mouth again, I would have gotten yelled at.
After
an hour or so in the car, I was pretending to be asleep, and Andy was poking me
with his wand, watching my hair turn all different colors. Mom and Dad were
trying to hide laughs as my hair turned from bright pink to orange with red
spots. Finally I sat up, changed my hair back to normal, and laughed along with
my family as I did the same to my brother. Finally, we pulled into the airport
parking lot.
We
climbed out of the car and we headed to the trunk. Mom and Dad transfigured our
trunks into light-weight travel bags, and changed the cages to small bags as
well. They calmed our fears by saying Sirius and Aurora could still breathe,
and the bags would change back once we got on the plane. We just had to get
them through baggage check.
"Hurry
Harry, it's 9:30! The plane leaves at 10:00!" Mom said, rushing us into the
building. She looked at another piece of yellow parchment. "Let's see. Gate 23
½ , that's this way." We went through baggage check with no problems and were
now heading for gate 23. When we got there, we saw gate 23 and gate 24, but no
gate 23 ½ .
"Mom?
Dad? Where's the gate?" I asked, believing this was all a little stupid.
"Right
there," Mom said, pointing to part of the wall. It was a blank wall. How the
heck were we supposed to go through it? There was a family walking up to the
gate right after us.
"Daddy?
Mommy? How do I get to the gate?" A small voice I recognized asked.
I
turned around quickly and my hunch was confirmed. "Katey!" I screamed, running
up to her.
"Alexia!"
She screamed, running up to me. We embraced, something we would not usually do
under other circomstances. "You're a witch too? How cool! We're going to the
same school next year!"
"Katey,"
Mrs. Kreves said, walking up to her. She had just finished talking with my
parents. "We can't go with you through the gate. Muggles can't, it only works
for wizarding folk. You go with Alex and Mr. And Mrs. Potter."
"Ok
Mommy," She hugged both her parents and walked over to my parents, looking
confused. "What did she mean by Potter? I thought you guys were Weasleys!"
"It's
a long story Katey, I'll explain it sometime." I smiled. My best friend was
going to my school! "Well, we'd better go, shouldn't we? We don't want to miss
the plane!"
Katey
waved back to her parents. "Bye Mommy, bye Daddy."
Katey and I walked through the
barrier after being told what to do. I looked up and saw a sign that said Gate
23 ½. I looked around, there were kids all over the place. Bags were being
changed back into cages or trunks, though some of them didn't. Owls were
hooting at each other and cats were stretching after being aloud out of their
cages. Coversations were going on.
"Aunt Jane, how long am I going
to be on this plane? I'm tired of them all." One little girl asked, yawning.
She looked as if she had been on a plane for the past few hours.
"Oh David, stop pulling my hair!"
A third-year girl said to a third-year boy.
My
brother came through the barrier after a minute. Then my parents came through.
"Katey,
your parents said they love you and are expecting many letters from you this
year," My mom said.
"Alright,"
She answered, still not believing what was happening. Her bags stayed the same,
but one bag changed into an owl cage. Inside was a large brown owl. She smiled
at me. "Her name's Fudge. I like fudge. fudge is yummy. I like to eat fudge."
Her owl hooted. "No! Not you! Fudge fudge! Not Fudge the owl!"
"It
suits her," I answered.
Just
then a voice came on the P.A. "Boarding Call! Students please make your way to
the plane in an orderly fashion!"
Most
of the time, you would have expected the crowd to rush forward. That's what
I've always seen. But the students all took their time. I looked out the large
window and spotted a small golden plane outside.
"No
way we can fit into that thing," Katey said. "There's like 700 students out
here! I'm surprised they could fit us all in this room."
"With
magic, you can do anything," I replied. I hugged my mom and dad good-bye and
Katey, Andy and I walked onto the plane. Before boarding, I turned once more to
wave good-bye.
When
we walked onto the plane, it looked more like the inside of a well, I don't
know what it was like. There was three stories to it, a walk way down the
middle, with compartments down the middle. "Let's stay on the first floor. Most
people want to go down to the lower floors," I said, pointing to the stairs
students were taking. We were walking down the walkway when I fell forward,
being pushed from behind by someone.
"Hey,
watch it!" I yelled, getting up on my feet.
The
boy looked at me and blushed. "Sorry, didn't see you there." He dissappeared into
a compartment.
We
turned away and walked to the back, where the only open compartment was. I
hated the back of the plane, it was always the loudest. But surprisingly
enough, it wasn't. It was as silent as the front. We opened the door and found
that it was in fact empty.
I
placed my bag under the seat, which had now turned back into my trunk. When our
other bags turned into cages we let our cats out to stretch. Aurora jumped onto
my seat next to Katey and me.
"Oh
how cute!" She said picking up my kitten and hugging it. It licked her face and
mewed. "What's her name?"
"Aurora,"
I smiled, taking Aurora back from her.
She
smiled and looked over to Sirius. "Oh another cute kitten!" She picked him up
and petted him. "What's his name?"
"Sirius,
after my father's godfather Sirius Black. I thought it was fitting." Andy
answered smiling.
After
about five minutes there was a knock on our door. A blonde boy and an older
girl entered.
"Well...well...well,"
The older girl answered. She was the same girl as from the robe shop. "I heard
from my brother that Potter's kids were on this plane, a couple of redheads. Is
this true? By the way, we're Danielle and John Malfoy."
"Yeah,"
Andy said getting up. I joined him. I might be a girl, but I could kick some
butt, and this girl looked like she was asking for it. "Is that a problem?"
"Really?
It's you two, isn't it? You look nothing like your father." Danielle answered.
"That's
cause they're Weasleys," John, her younger brother sa0id. He was also our old
friend.
"Oh,
so you're part Weasel?" She smirked. "Yes, you do have the Weasel red hair and
freckles. I met them back at Hogwarts. Do you have lots of siblings?"
"No,
we're the only ones," I answered, almost in a growl. "Don't insult my family."
"Don't
worry, we don't need to. There's a mudblood in here, she'll suffice." Danielle
answered, pointing to Katey. John looked shocked, then glared at Katey, he had
onviously not seen her.
I
pulled back my fist and let it fly, hitting her in the face. She fell back unconsious,
her brother catching her. "Why the heck did you do that?" He yelled.
"Your
sister called your friend a
mudblood!" I yelled at him. "Don't you even know what that is?"
"Well
if my sister called her that, then she must have deserved it," He answered.
Another
fist flew, this time Andy hit him. He fell back, clutching his stumach. "A
mudblood is a nasty word for a muggle born you moron! And did you hear her call
our family Weaseles?"
"I'm
leaving!" He yelled, lifting his sister up and carrying her away.
"Good
riddance!" I shouted after him, shutting the door.
Another
knock was on the door. This time it was a boy with messy brown hair and
glasses. "Did I just see Malfy walking out of here carrying his sister?" He
asked.
"Yeah,
and they both deserved what they got," Andy said.
"Well
my name's Luke, I'm from Wisconsin! Both my parents are magic folk, so it
wasn't much of a surprise..." I zoned out as he talked. He was babbling on
about something to do with being really smart, but I could care less.
"Well,
thanks for the talk, I'll see you later I hope!" He left.
We
talked, ate our lunch, and talked some more as the plane kept traveling on.
Eventually, we changed into our robes. Andy stood outside while Katey and I
changed, and we stood outside while he changed. Soon we began to feel the
turbulance that meant we were landing. Andy and I placed Aurora and Sirius back
into their cages.
"Leave
all bagages on the plane!" The P.A. said. "They will be taken up to your
dormitory on their own."
We
exited the plane, a huge crowd was forming. An African-American woman called
over the crowed. "FIRST YEARS REPORT OVER HERE! FIRST YEARS REPORT OVER HERE!"
We
headed over to where she was calling from. When all the first years had arrived
to where they were supposed to be, the woman smiled at us. "Hi there, the
name's Rachel. I'm one of the Physical Education teachers here at the school.
I'm going to take you students separately to the school."
She
led us to a collection of wagons pulled by horses and told us to board them.
Andy, Katey, Luke and I sat in the same area on the wagon. After a few minutes
of riding down a dirt rode she said, "Now, the school's just around the corner.
You'll be seeing it in a minute."
There
was a loud "Ooo.." from the students. It looked like one of the colleges that
looked like a castle or something. There were about eight towers all together.
The
wagons stopped in front of the school and we exited them, standing out in the
dark. The cold breeze ruffled my robes, and I pulled them tighter around my
body. Suddenly they opened, and a stern looking man walked out wearing forest
green robes and a forest green wizards hat.
"New
first years?" He asked. "Follow me please," He led us through the doors, and
into our future as witches and wizards.
Well, that took forever for me to write.
Hope you like it. It may sound obvious, and copying the actual HP books, but
it's not, trust me.
Questions? Comments? All are welcome!
R&R PLEASE!!!
