Now for some background on the Hogwarts family.
Max Potter is the son of the famous Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley. He was messy black hair, and is identical to Harry, except for he doesn't have a scar. His best friends are Niaomi Weasley, and his cousin Morgania Dursley.
Morgania is the daughter of Dudley Dursley and Pansy Parkinson. She has black hair, and is nothing like her parents. People have suspicions that Pansy cheated on Dudley at sometime to give Morgania her looks. Her special skill is pissing off her grandparents. Her grandparents disowned her after she started showing magical powers. Dudley divorced Pansy after she told him about her being a witch. Morgania continually ran away to Harry's house.
Niaomi Weasley is the daughter of Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. If you talked to her for a minute you would know she was related to Hermione. She was a major bookworm. She knew Max since she was 2 months old.
Niaomi has lots of cousins. First, there is Charlie's daughter Britanny. She is a 7th year prefect. Her best subject was Care of Magical Creatures. She is often seen with cuts, burns, and bruises from her helping her dad with the dragons. Bill had two children. A 19-year-old boy named Philip who worked at the Ministry, and a 14-year-old daughter named Jill. Jill is a 4th year, and on the Gryfinndor Quidditch team as keeper. George had twin boys, Kurt and Paul. Kurt is good friends with Max, but not the best. Paul is a quite boy that didn't like to pull pranks. He was more like his mother Katie Bell, than George. Percy's son is a disgrace to the Weasley name. He is the only wizard in the family to not be in Gryfinndor. As you might think, he would be in Ravenclaw like his mother, Penelope. But you are wrong, he's in Hufflepuff. Tim Weasley, the son of Fred Weasley and Alicia Spinnet. He is the best practical joker at Hogwarts, and best friends of Meg and Skylar Black.
Meg Atront is the only Three Musketeer that isn't in Gryfinndor. She is a Ravenclaw and a muggle born. She has auburn hair, likes jokes, pranks, and things being blown up. She's a good listener when she isn't in History of Magic. She is also the only Three Musketeer that wasn't on a Quidditch team. She couldn't play Quidditch to save her life.
Skylar Black is a wild child. She is the daughter of Sirius Black and Joanne Kerpling. Joanne is the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. Skylar is the beater on the Gryfinndor along with Tim, and Captain of the team. She is archenemy with Rachel Skeeter.
Rachel Skeeter is Rita Skeeter's daughter after an incident with a June bug. She is a year ahead of the Three Musketeers. She's tall and has large eyes like a bug. She used to have antennas, but she got them removed. She is a snob that gets into everyone's business and always judges other's peoples stuff as inferior. She is one of the worst Slytherins in Hogwarts.
Not all Slytherins are bad though, there was Erica Malfoy. She is the daughter of Draco Malfoy and Cho Chang. She is a friend of the Three Musketeers. Her brother, Shenlong, is a year below her. He hated her since one Quidditch practice when Erica deliberately knocked him off his broom. Shenlong is always around his two goons, Crabbe and Goyle. Their first names? You think I know? Come on! Everyone has forgotten their first names back in their 2nd year. No one has used them for a long time.
I think that covers about everyone, look, the sorting is about to begin.
Max, Morgania, Niaomi, and Alannah were standing patiently with the rest of the first years.
"Gees, this must be what it's like to be a sardine." Morgania said.
"Sardines? I think it's more like being a Everyflavor bean in a bag of 1000." Alannah said.
"Interesting metaphor." Kurt and Paul Weasley pushed their way through to them.
"Hey guys." The twins said at the same time.
"Hey." Professor Black, Skylar's mother, walked onto the stage carrying the Sorting Hat and stool.
"Andrews, Lory." Professor Black said. A black girl walked onto the stage. It sorted her into Ravenclaw.
"Doors, Alannah." Snape groaned loudly and caused the Gryfinndor table to snicker. Alannah was sorted into Gryfinndor. Morgaina Dursley was sorted into Slytherin at the shock of all her friends. It caused an out-burst at the Gryfinndor table started by Tim and Skylar. Then "Ely, Jessica" was called. She was short with her brown hair trailing past her waist. After a few seconds, she was sorted into Gryfinndor also. The names "Franklin, Ben" "Foster, Jack" and "Harold, Reid." Were sorted into Slytherin. A few students were sorted into Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, then "Longbottom, Nancy" and "Potter, Max" were called. They were sorted into Gryfinndor. The rest of students were sorted into Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff. That was, until the Weasley's were called. All the teachers seemed horrified that here stood 3 students with flaming red hair. One was a girl with 2 braided pigtails. The other two were twins.
"Who do you think their parents are?" McGonnagal whispered to Professor Sinitra.
"The girl is Hermione Granger's daughter, the other two I'm afraid are George Weasley's." Sinitra answered. McGonnagal groaned almost as loud as Snape did earlier.
"We're waiting!" Kurt yelled. Joanna Black called his name. He was sorted into Gryfinndor. Loud cheers were heard from that table. Then Niaomi was called. She was also sorted into Gryfinndor.
When Paul was called, he by no doubt was also sorted into Gryfinndor. The teachers glanced at what seemed to be a family reunion at the Gryfinndor table. There stood 7 red heads all chattering away.
"God help us all." McGonnagal replied just before giving her speech.
"Okay, I was counting up the money we made from the pranks."
"How much?" Tim asked, in between bites of roast beef.
"134 galleons, 15 sickles, and 27knuts. That's just enough for the Ghostbuster Ghost-getter-ridder-gun."
"Okay, so how long did the catalogue say it would take for ordering?"
"2-3 months. So if we send the owl like tomorrow or something, then in November.
"Okay. So then, we can plan to do it as soon as we get it, before Halloween."
"We have to pay you're dad back right?"
"Yeah. When he's in the jar, we can have kids pay a galleon a peak, then we set up our prank shop again."
"Good idea. I've come up with some new pranks that we could make."
"Alright. Lets go find Meg after the feast is done. We can tell her our ideas, and then we can start our first prank."
"You mean, Operation Sugar Ant?"
"Yup."
"Excellent." Skylar stuffed another piece of roast beef in her mouth, and inhaled her drink. Soon all the students were sent to bed. All dreaming about what would be in store for them this year.
The next morning, Max, Niaomi, and Alannah were looking for Skylar and Tim. They promised the night before that they would show them how to get to their classes. But neither of them were around.
"You know, it's just like them to leave us the first day."
"Well, I guess we ought to start getting lost." Niaomi said. They left the portrait hole and tried to remember which direction they came in that evening.
After walking around in circles, the trio found themselves in a dusty old corridor.
"What is this place?" Max asked.
"I don't know, but it smells awful." Alannah said. They whipped around when cackling echoed through the hall.
"Peeves." The three growled. They were bombarded with spitballs.
"That's it! Whooperitca!" Niaomi chanted. Then with a pop Peeves turned into a hamburger.
"Where did you learn that?" Max asked.
"Mum made me read all my spell books before school started. Who knew it would come in handy?" Niaomi explained. They ran down the rest of the hall laughing. They came out somewhere near a statue of an eagle.
"Hey guys." Skylar said. She, Tim, and Meg were standing nearby.
"Hi!"
"What were you guys doing down there?" Tim asked.
"Just turning Peeves into a hamburger."
"What?!" The three 5th years ran into the corridor to rescue Peeves from his sesame seed bun prison.
"I think we're near the hall now." Max said.
"How do you know that?"
"Because its right there." Max said as he pointed to the large doors. The three sped inside, and grabbed what ever food was left at the Gryfinndor table. A girl with long chestnut hair came up to them.
"Hey." The three replied with a muffled 'hello', spraying toast and eggs all over the table. "You guys weren't around, so I grabbed your schedules for you. Here." The three grabbed it from them.
"Thanks, can you pass the orange juice?" Alannah asked.
"Um... alright." The girl gave Alannah the container, and headed out the doors.
"I hate it here." She mumbled. The girl was Jessica Ely a first year Gryfinndor. "At least its not the orphanage. How come every attempt I do to make new friends backfires? 'Thanks can you pass the orange juice.' Well wasn't that nice? Now I have classes, maybe Herbology won't be so bad. It sounds interesting." She was heading toward the greenhouses at that moment.
"Hello there." Lorna Doors greeted her students. She grinned as Jessica sulked over to the Greenhouse. "Well, she's finally arrived."
"Alright students. Since this is your first day, I want all of you to choose a plant to take care of for part of this term. This means feed it, water it, prune it, anything that it might need. Now break up into pairs and get to work." There was an odd number as all the students paired off. Jessica stood by herself as all the students went to find a plant. She walked around the greenhouse looking for something that looked easy, as a vine grabbed ahold of her leg.
"What the..." Then another one grabbed her arm. "Huh?" Soon more vines grabbed a hold of her and lifted her off the ground. "Lemme go!" More vines wrapped around her. She struggled against them and they became tighter. Then Max Potter and Kurt Weasley walked by.
"Hey! Can you help me?!" Jessica yelled. The boys looked up and started laughing.
"What's wrong? Can't handle it?" Kurt asked.
"No I can't. Please help me!"
"I think we should leave her up there. What do you think?" Max said.
"I agree totally." Kurt said. Jessica glared at them and yanked her arm out of the vines and grabbed her wand.
"Bungelous." She chanted. The boys looked at her and started laughing again.
"Nice curse. Well see you later." Kurt said. The two walked away pointing and laughing at her.
"What kind of plant is this?" She wondered out loud. The vines grabbed ahold of her arm again and made her drop her wand. "Crap." She struggled against the vines, but they didn't budge. "Potter! I'll kill you for this!"
"Need some help there?" A voice said.
"Yes Professor Doors. I seem to be stuck." Doors grabbed some of the vines and released Jessica from them. The sounds of pots breaking brought a smile to Jessica's face. Her curse finally started working.
"Potter! Weasley! What did you do?" Doors yelled. She ran off.
The next class the Gryfinndor first years had was Potions. More things started going wrong. Max couldn't answer questions that he knew the answers. Kurt melted his cauldron and desk. Then the big mistake happened.
"Potter, what is a fire healer made of?"
"I don't know professor."
"What does a werewolf fang do to a sleeping potion?"
"I don't know professor."
"What actually do you know?"
"I know that you must have chewed a whole pack of bad breath gum." The whole class broke into giggles. Snape's face turned bright red and he had steam coming out of his ears.
"Detention to all Gryfinndors laughing and 50 points from Gryfinndor." Everyone instantly fell silent.
"Thanks alot Ely. Look what you did!" Max yelled at her. It was a dinner when he and Jessica got into a row.
"I'm sorry! It wasn't supposed to be that strong." Jessica said.
"Well now everyone in our class has detention!"
"Look I'm sorry!"
"Not as sorry as you're going to be!" He grabbed the bowl of mashed potatoes nearby and dumped it on top of her head. Everyone in the Great hall was watching them.
"Why did you do that?!" Jessica asked as she wiped the white lumps out of her eyes.
"This is war, Ely. You better watch your back." Max glared at her and walked away.
"Hey Potter!" Max turned around. Jessica grabbed a pitcher of pumpkin juice and pour the contents on top of his head.
"Food Fight!" Skylar, Tim, and Meg screamed, picking up their nearest bowl and throwing it at the Slytherin table.
"Can't we go one year without having a food fight?" McGonagall asked the other teachers.
"Not if Lorna is here." Snape muttered. Doors smirked.
"Grease trap is right." Doors said.